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Notes ajid Glea7iins's. 



thin, clear green, thickly sown with little brown dots, and with light russet 

 spots near the calyx ; flesh fine, very melting, abundantly supplied with a sugary 

 juice, highly and agreeably perfumed ; core large, rounded, closing on the 

 seeds, which are tolerably numerous, large, short, nearly round, of a clear ma- 

 hogany color. 





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Lydie Thi^rard Pear. 



" The original tree, growing in a chalky soil, and trained as an espalier, is 

 very vigorous and very beautiful, the fruit growing in clusters. The tree sprang 

 from seed of the Bergamotte Crassane d'Automne, sown in 1857 by M. Jules 

 Thierard, gardener at Rethel (Ardennes). It first fruited in 1866 ; but the first 

 mature specimens were produced in 1867, one of which kept until Feb. 14, 1868; 

 but its season of maturity cannot yet be precisely fixed, and it is not probable 

 that it will generally be preserved so late." 



