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Variety, totally different from this, is cultivated erroneously by 

 the same name in some collections. Miller describes this 

 pear also under two distinct heads, as quoted above, (see Mil. 

 Gard. Die. No. 30 and 36) and although he varies in the de- 

 scriptions, and states that one is round and the other long, 

 still I consider them as without doubt synonymous, for I find 

 no distinction of the kind advanced in any French publication, 

 and he has referred to no authority but in the one case. This 

 error Forsyth copies from him. 



STRIPED LONG GREEN. PR. CAT. COXE. 



Striped Dean. Pr. cat. 25 ed. 



Culotte de Suisse. Dull. 



Verte longue panache'e, or Suisse. Roz. Duh. Coxe. 



Verte longue. Striped, or Swiss. For. 



This is a very handsome fruit to the view, on account of the 

 colour of its perfectly smooth skin, where the green is pleas- 

 antly variegated by long yellow stripes which extend from the 

 summit to the base of the fruit, with some occasional light 

 touches of red next the sun. It is thirty lines in height, and 

 two inches in breadth, its form being a pretty exact pyramid. 

 The flesh is melting, replete with sweet juice, which is musky 

 and very agreeable. The seeds are brown, of oblong form, 

 and very much pointed, and the fruit ripens at the end of 

 September. 



GREEN SUGAR. EVEL. MIL. PB. CAT. COXE. 



Sucr.e vert. Roz. Duh. Mil. Coxe. 

 Sucre verd. Quin. 



Sugar green. Evel. 



This fruit has often a turbinate form, being twenty-five or 

 twenty-six lines in diameter, and of the same height : some- 

 times it is larger, and rather pyramidal in its shape, measur- 

 ing thirty-three inches in height and twenty-eight or twenty- 



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