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PEARS. 



35. Skinless Pear. Miller, No. 13. 

 Poire sans Peau. Duhamel, No. 35. t. 13. 

 Fleur de Guignes. lb. 



Fruit below the middle size, of a somewhat pyramidal 

 figure, about two inches and a half long, and one inch and 

 three quarters in diameter. Eye small, nearly closed, slight- 

 ly depressed. Stalk one inch and a half long, slender, ra- 

 ther crooked, inserted in a small cavity. Skin extremely 

 thin, smooth, pale green, with a few gray specks ; on the 

 sunny side yellow, marbled with light red. flesh melting, 

 with a most excellent sweet and perfumed juice. 



Ripe the beginning and middle of August. 



This grows strong on the Pear, but middling on the 

 Quince. 



36. Summer Bonchretien. JMiller, No. 34. Pom, 

 Mag. t. 14. 



Bonchretien d'E'te. DuhameU 90. t. 47. f. 4. 



Gracioli. lb. according to the Pom. JMag. 



Die Sommer Christbirne. Pom. Aust. Vol. 1. p. 38. 



Fruit large, irregularly pyramidal, about four inches long, 

 and three inches in diameter, exceedingly knobby and irre- 

 gular in its outline, particularly about the eye. Eye small, 

 prominent, in a narrow, shallow, obtuse-angled basin. Stalk 

 two inches and a half long irregular and crooked, very ob- 

 liquely inserted, in a knobby, irregular cavity. Skin, when 

 fully ripe, of a pale lemon colour, very slightly tinged with 

 red on the sunny side, and covered all over with small green 

 dots. Flesh yellowish, breaking, firm, juicy, very sweet 

 and excellent. Cone very small, placed near the eye. 



Ripe the middle of September. 



This will take on both Pear and Quince, but should never 

 be grafted on the latter stock. 



A very excellent old Pear, mentioned by Parkinson, and 

 by many modern Pomologists in France, Italy, Holland, 

 and Germany, under various other names, not necessary to 

 quote here as synonymes. 



It succeeds best in this country on an east or west wall, 

 being rather too tender for an open standard. 



37. Summer Francreal. Pom. Mag. t. 106. 

 Francreal d'E'te. Diets, Pom. 



Vol. iii. p. 245. 

 Fondante, Knoop. Pom. 93. t. 3. \ according to the 

 France Cancel, lb. ^ "— t^^-- 



Gros Micet d'E'te. Of some 



French Gardens, 



Pom. Mag. 



