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Citrina Pear. 



CITRINA PEAR. 



This is another of Dr. Shurtleff's Seedlings, and one that he esteems 

 quite highly. It fruited for the first time in 1862, and proves to be a great 

 bearer. It is of medium size, — short diameter two inches, long diameter 

 iiree inches ; short pyriform ; color bright yellow ; surface slightly knobby 



and uneven ; flesh nearly white, rather coarse, and slightly gritty about the 

 core, with a rich and quite peculiar pleasant flavor ; stem three-fourths of 

 an inch long, and rather stout, slightly curved with a fleshy, wrinkled base ; 

 calyx small, in a shallow, plaited basin ; fruit about the size of the largest 

 specimens of the Washington. Ripens in September. Wood rather slen- 

 der, and of a grayish color. 



