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inserted. Skin green, becoming yellow, thickly sprinkled with 

 gray russetty specks, and which form a mottled russet on the 

 sunny side. Flesh yellowish white, breaking, a little gritty, 

 but becoming mellow when matured. Juice saccharine, with 

 a slight musky perfume. In eating the beginning of November 

 till the middle or end of January. It succeeds very well 

 upon the quince stock. This very fine pear has lately been 

 raised in Flanders, and sent to the Horticultural Society of 

 London, in whose garden at Chiswick it (in 1830) produced 

 some uncommonly fine fruit upon an open standard, from 

 which this description was taken." Lind. 



GLOUT MORCEAU. PR. CAT. LOND. HORT. CAT. LIND. 

 Gloux Morceau. Lond. Hort. trans. 



"Fruit very like the Beurre d'Aremberg, but larger, more 

 oval, not so turbinate in its shape, about four inches long, 

 and three inches and a half in diameter. Eye small, deeply 

 sunk in an uneven oblique hollow. Stalk an inch long, 

 rather deeply inserted in an oblique cavity. Skin pale, dull 

 olive-green, a little inclined to yellow, and covered with nu- 

 merous gray russetty specks, with russetty blotches round the 

 stalk. Flesh whitish, firm, very juicy, but a little gritty at 

 the core. Ripe in November, but will keep till February or 

 March. This very beautiful and fine variety was sent to the 

 Horticultural Society by M. Parmentier, of Enghien, along 

 with the Beurre d'Aremberg, in November, 1820. It requires 

 an east or southeast wall to grow it in perfection ; but very 

 fine specimens were (in 1830) grown upon open standards, in 

 the Horticultural Garden at Chiswick, three inches and a 

 half long, and three inches in diameter." Lind. 



GRUMKOWER. LIND. 



Grumkower Winterbirne. Lond. Hort. cat. 



" Fruit middle-sized, in shape somewhat like a Bonchretien, 

 having a few obtuse angles or ribs extending from the middle 

 of the fruit to the crown, and narrowed towards the stalk ; 



