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LONDON SUGAR. Fruit below medium size, turbinate. 

 Skin pale green, becoming yellow when ripe, with a 

 brownish tinge when fully exposed to the sun. Eye 

 small, half-open, prominent, and surrounded with puckered 

 plaits. Stalk an inch long, slender, obliquely inserted. 

 Flesh tender, melting, very juicy, sugary, and musky. 

 Ripe in the end of July and beginning of August. 



Lord Cheyne's. See Bergamotte d'Hollande. 

 Louise d'Avranches. See Louise Bonne of Jersey. 



LOUISE BONNE OF JERSEY (Beurre d'Avranckes; Bonne 

 d'Avranchcs ; Bonne de Longueval ; Bonne Louise 

 d'Arandore; Louise d' Avranches ; William the Fourth}. 

 Fruit medium sized, pyriform. Skin smooth, yellow on 

 the shaded side, but crimson next the sun, covered with 

 crimson and russety dots. Eye small and open, set in a 

 rather deep basin. Stalk three quarters of an inch long, 

 obliquely inserted without depression. Flesh white, but- 

 tery, and melting, with a rich, sugary, and brisk vinous 

 flavour. 



A most delicious pear, ripe in October. The tree is a 

 good bearer, and succeeds well as a pyramid on the quince. 



Lucrate. See Fondante d'Automne. 

 Mabile. See Napoleon. 

 Madame. See Windsor. 



MADAME DURIEUX. Fruit medium sized, bergamot- 

 shaped. Skin greenish-yellow, mottled with large patches 

 of russet, particularly about the stalk, and dotted and 

 streaked with the same. Eye closed, slightly depressed. 

 Stalk three quarters of an inch long. Flesh white, 

 melting, buttery, juicy, and with a bergamot flavour. 

 Ripe in the end of October and beginning of November. 



Madame de France. See Windsor. 

 Madeleine. See Citron des Carnies. 



MARCH BERGAMOT. Fruit medium sized, bergamot- 

 shaped. Skin yellow, covered with minute ruSset dots, 

 which cause it to feel rough. Eye open, set in a wide, 

 even basin. Stalk an inch or more long, woody, inserted 

 in a deep, round cavity. Flesh yellowish, firm, breaking 

 half-melting, very juicy, and with a high bergamot flavour, 



An excellent pear for the season. Eipe during March, 

 and April. 



