32 PEARS. 



Duhamel speaks of a sub-variety of this pear of larger 

 size, but possessing less excellence. It is pyriform, a little 

 rounded at the base where there are some swellings, amid 

 which the eye is inserted ; its height is two inches and nine 

 lines, and its diameter twenty-seven lines; the stem is fre- 

 quently accompanied by a small swelling at the place of its 

 junction with the fruit ; the skin is green and rather smooth, 

 although it is dotted over with numerous points of a greenish 

 brown hue, and the side next the sun has a slight touch of rus- 

 set ; the flesh is half-breaking, rather dry, and of a musky 

 flavour. This fruit ripens the beginning of September. 



GREAT CASSOLETTE. AUTH. 



Grosse Cassolette. N. Duh. 



This pear has the form of a top, and is twenty-six lines in 

 height and twenty-seven in breadth; the eye is somewhat 

 sunken within a cavity whose border is very even and regular, 

 and the stem, which is altogether sixteen or eighteen lines in 

 length, is also placed in a cavity, and that part which joins the 

 fruit is swelled in a remarkable manner. The skin is entirely 

 of a light green, even at perfect maturity, and is dotted all 

 over with numerous greenish specks ; the flesh is melting, of 

 a very peculiar acid flavour, which however is no wise disa- 

 greeable when the fruit is perfectly ripe, which takes place 

 about the middle of August. 



SALVIATI. PR. CAT. Roz. DUH. MIL. For, COXE. 

 Perfumed, of some American collections. 



This pear is nearly globular, the height but little exceeding 

 the breadth, its diameter being two inches and its height twen- 

 ty-three lines ; it frequently has a small furrow upon one side, 

 which runs from the summit to the base of the fruit ; the stem 

 is twelve to fifteen lines in length, and implanted in a small 

 contracted cavity, and the eye at the opposite extremity is 

 situated in a wide depression, which is surrounded by some 



