of' a sweet and "i-kv f'avour ; the fruit i< ai maturity during 

 the month of X'l-ju-t. 



\\ e have received from Provence. >ays tl'e N< Duham-'l.a 

 Rohine pi-ar, which differ- a little from the one ju>t described, 

 not in respect to the size and form which are decidedly the same, 

 but because the stem rises from a ravity u lio-c rd^es are even and 

 reirular ; the eye less deeply -unk, and the >l\'m remains ^recu 

 wlien the fruit is at perfect maturitv, and even when it becomes 

 soft. Duhamel in the original edition, when >])eaUinu of the 

 Hobine pear. sa\s that it does not readily become soli and 

 dei ay. 



(,IUSi; BONNE. EVIL. IN-/.. J)r. Coxr. 



(rood a ran ])far. 



Ambretle <i*< t(\ 



Crapaud'tie . (-|uiu. Fvel. 



Toad f>e>r, Gray good, or Summer Amhrctfe Evel. 



Riule /'j(>ti'. 



This is a fruit of moderate si/e, of an oblonii' and som^u hai 

 cucumber f n'm. beinn thirty Inu-s in hciu'ht \}\ twentv-two in 

 breadth ; the head is quite round, and the eve is placed even 

 with the extremity ; the >t i m i> larire, from nine to twelve lines 

 in lenuth. and rises obliquely from a small caviu ; thr >l\in i> 

 of a trreenish irray, speckled with whitish dot> over tlu^ whole 

 surface and touched in some places with russet : the !le>h is 

 Aiieltint:, rich rind sweet, and the fruit is ripe during the month 

 of Auti'ust. 



(,'HAIR A I)\ME. PK. 



Thi> prar i^ twent\->i\ linc> in hc'iLiht and t\\'ent\'-two in 

 diameter, with a laruc >hort -tern, not '\( ccdini: at most nine 

 lines in length, and almost invariably placed obliquely in the 

 ajnid some small protuberances. The skin is yellow. 



