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PEARS. 



terspersed with grayish specks, often very near together on 

 the end next the eye ; the flesh is exceedingly melting, of a 

 sweet, rather rich and very pleasant flavour. The seeds are 

 frequently abortive, and the fruit ripens in October. 



BERGAMOTTE DE SOULERS. PR. CAT. Roz. DUH. 



Bonne de Soulers. Roz. syn. Duh. syn. 

 Bergamotte of Soulers. 



This fruit is twenty-five lines in height and thirty in diame- 

 ter ; the head is more round than is the case with other Ber- 

 gamot pears, and the eye is but slightly depressed ; the stem 

 is rather large, eleven lines in length and somewhat sunk in 

 the fruit ; the skin is shining, very light green on the shaded 

 side, scattered over with dots of a deeper shade of the same 

 colour, and changing to yellow at maturity ; the side next the 

 sun acquires a slight tinge of brownish red ; the flesh is melt- 

 ing, sweet, and of agreeable taste ; the seeds are large, well 

 matured, and terminate in a long very acute point. This fruit 

 ripens in February and March, and the tree may be ingrafted 

 on both pear and quince. 



NAPLES. PR. CAT. DUH. MIL. For. EVEL. ? 



Poire de Naples. Roz. N. Duh. Quin. ? 

 Easter St. Germain. Mil. 



This pear has usually a turbinate form, sometimes it is nearly 

 round, the peduncle and the eye being even with the fruit ; the 

 height of the largest is thirty lines, and the diameter thirty- 

 two, but frequently far less ; the stem is scarcely ten lines in 

 length, and the skin is almost wholly a light green, which 

 changes to pale yellow at maturity, and occasionally the side 

 exposed to the sun takes a partial tint of red ; the flesh is half- 

 breaking, almost melting, of a pleasant and somewhat musky 

 flavour ; the seeds are brown and proportionably large in 

 comparison with the fruit. In the old edition of Duhamel 



