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spiral protuberance ; the skin i^ liLilit ureeii. interspersed with 

 red spots, and becomes yellow at maturity, \\hen the sunny 

 side also acquires a red tint; the lU-sh is somewhat firm, mode- 

 rately meltinir, and of a musky and agreeable flavour; the 

 seeds are broad, short, and very often abortive, and the fruit 

 ripens in November and December ; the tree succeeds better 

 on the pear than on the quince. 



De la Quintinye and Evelyn mention a pear then cultivated, 

 which bore the title of Pastourelle, Musette, d'automne, or 

 Bagpipe of autumn, from which circumstance it would appear 

 that this fruit was known to the gardens of that day. 



ST. AUGUSTIN. IV. < AT. Evr.L. 



Xaint Augustiii. Quin. Ro/. Uuh. 

 St. Austin. Mil. For. 

 Poire dc Pise. 



This pear is thirty lines in height and tuenty-two in diame- 

 ter ; it is swollen about the middle and diminishes in si/e to- 

 wards the head, where the eye is placed even with the fruit- 

 its size is still smaller at the other extremity, which terminates 

 in an obtuse point, and in which the stem of an inch in length 

 is inserted among some protuberances without any appa- 

 rent depression ; the skin, which is at first green, becomes a 

 light yellow at the time of ripeninu, the side exposed to the 

 sun's rays is faintly tinged with red, and the whole surface is 

 more or less scattered o\er \\ith brown specks; the flesh is 

 hard and of a mu>ky llavour ; the seeds are black, oblong, 

 and quite perfect, and the fruit ripens in December and Janu- 

 ary ; the tree may be ingrafted either upon the pear or the 

 quince. 



C11AMP-R1CI1E JJJTAUi;. PH. CAT. R../.. Jhn. 



RicliL fV Italic. \ Italian rich ////. Atitli. 



This fruit is three mche> and a half in height and two inches 

 seven lines in diameter at the \\\n-\ -\\ ollen point, which is about 



