134 PEARS. 



yet firmly to the tree this is the only way to have it really in 

 perfection, for if suffered to ripen fully on the tree, it is a poor 

 variety. It decays externally before it gives way at the core." 



MUSCAT ROYE. CALVEL. Die. D'AGRIC. 



This is a small fruit, of oblong form ; the skin rough to the 

 touch, of a yellowish green on the shaded side, and of a plea- 

 sant red next the sun ; the flesh is breaking and perfumed ; the 

 tree is vigorous, and the fruit is at maturity at the end of 

 August. 



TROMPE CASSAIRE. Die. D'AGRIC. 



According to an account of M. Lardier, this variety is cul- 

 tivated in the environs of Aix. It is an early fruit, of medium 

 size, round and green, with a long stem ; the flesh delicate, 

 with rather pleasant juice when it is not too ripe, and the tree 

 bears abundantly. 



SUMMER FRANCREAL. POM. MAG. 



Francrenl d'tie. Diel's Pom. Lond. Hort. cat. 



Fondanle. Knoop Pomol. 



Gros Micet tfU) of some French gardens. 



This pear is figured in the Pomological Magazine, and des- 

 cribed as follows : 



" A valuable variety, destitute of the hardness of the Bon- 

 chretien, and of the muskiness of many French pears of its 

 season. It is a very hardy, healthy, free growing tree, and a 

 great bearer, ripening its fruit in the middle of September. 



" Wood greenish-yellow, brown, sprinkled with a few pale- 

 brown spots ; leaves large, ovate, somewhat cordate, acumi- 

 nate, almost entire at the margin, when young very woolly ; 

 petioles upwards of an inch long, rather slender ; stipules 



