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CLASS I. Worthy General Cultivation. 

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William's Bon Chretien, | William's, 

 Poire Guilliaume. 



An English variety originated about 1770. Now extensively 

 grown, and too well known to really need description. The trees 

 are vigorous, and early productive of fair handsome fruit, either on 

 pear or quince root. 



Fruit, large, ovate, obtuse pyriform ; surface somewhat uneven ; 

 color, clear light yellow, tinged with blush in sun when ripe, russet 

 around the stem, and minute russet dots over the whole ; stem, short, 

 thick ; calyx, medium, partly open ; basin, shallow, furrowed ; core, 

 medium ; seeds, broad ovate ; Jiesh, yellowish white, melting, juicy, 

 vinous. Season, middle August to middle September. 



