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Section III. — Small. 



Bergamot, Summer. Small, round, yellowish green, with 

 a brownish cheek; basin wide; flesh juicy, moderately 

 rich, soon becoming meal}' and dry. Ripens soon after 

 mid-summer. Growth feeble. 



Summer Portugal. {S7j7i. Passans du Portugal.) Size, 

 rather small, often nearly medium ; roundish-oblate, regu- 

 lar ; skin yellowish green or pale yellow, with a hand- 

 some red cheek in the sun, formed of the reddened dots ; 

 stalk about an inch long; calyx stiff, erect; cavity and 

 basin shallow; flesh white, breaking, tender, juicy, good 

 second-rate. Late summer. Very productive. Shoots 

 upright, reddish brown. 



Williams^ Early. Rather small, roundish, remotely turbi- 

 nate, regular ; bright yellow, sunny side with scarlet dots; 

 stalk an inch and a half long, fleshy at msertion ; calyx 

 very short, erect, basin slightl}'' plaited ; flesh white, 

 granular, juicy half-buttery, rich, slightly musky. End 

 of summer and first of autumn. Shoots dark. A hand- 

 some, good second-rate pear, a native of Roxbury, Mass. 



Summer Doyenne, of the preceding class, approaches this 

 class in form. 



DIVISION II.— AUTUMN PEARS. 



Class I. — Distinct pyiiifotim 



Section I. — Large Fears. 



BEURRE BOSC. [Syii. Calebasse Bosc.) Large, very 

 distinct pyriform, neck rather long and very narrow, acute ; 

 body large obla e ; surface nearly smooih, deep yellow, 

 russeled in patches ; stalk an inch md a half long, slen- 

 der, curved; basin very shallow; flesh juicy, buttery, 

 rich, pc-ceptibly perfumed, sweet, excellent. Mid-autumn. 

 Growth moderate, a regular, even bearer. Fails entirely 

 on quince stocks. Belgian. Fig. 168. 



