PEARS. 37 



This pea? takes its name from Hery, a forest in Bretagne, 

 between Rennes and Nantes, where it was first discovered. 



BASSIN. DUH. 



This pear is thirty lines in height and twenty-four in breadth, 

 and is pretty regularly pyriform. The skin is a fawn-green 

 on the shade side and dull red next the sun, and this redness 

 often extends over a great part of the fruit, which is covered 

 with very numerous small grayish dots ; the flesh is firm, of a 

 very sharp flavour which combines with it some acidity, thereby 

 rendering it not very pleasant to the taste. The fruit ripens 

 at the end of August or early in the following month, and soon 

 becomes soft. 



POIRE DES CHARTREUX DUH. 



Poire des champs des Chartreux, of some French catalogues. 



The height of this fruit is two and a half inches and its 

 diameter twenty-six lines ; it is very round at its base, in which 

 the eye is placed in a cavity scarcely apparent ; the stem is 

 eighteen lines in length and swollen at the point of junction 

 with the fruit ; the skin is entirely of a pale yellow colour, 

 dotted over with very small russet specks ; the flesh is half- 

 breaking and somewhat melting, with a sweet and pleasant 

 flavour. The seeds are brown or blackish, and the fruit ripens 

 at the end of August. 



AH ! MON DIEU. PR. CAT. Roz. DUH. 



Mon Dieu. Quin. The my God pear. Evel. 



Mandim. Poire d? Amour, erroneously. 



Poire d'Abondance. Die. d'Agric. syn. 



This fruit is twenty-four to twenty-six lines in height and 

 twenty-two to twenty-four in diameter, with a stem fifteen to 

 eighteen lines in length ; its skin is light yellow on the shade 

 side, and dotted over next the sun with bright red points, 



