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It is fomewhat larger and rather rounder 

 in its make, has a longer llalk, and bears 

 in clufters : it has a very pleafant flavour, 

 without being either harfh or meally. 



The young f hoots are of a yellov^ colour, 

 and as they are long and weak, require to 

 be fupported either by nailing to a wall 

 or in an efpalier, or confined to ftakes 

 either concave or horizontally : it does not 

 require any better afpeft than the former i 

 but in a garden where there is room, I 

 would chufe to have one againft a wall, 

 and another in fome kind of dwarf, that 

 they may be the longer eatable. 



The Citron de Camus, is a middle-fized 

 pear, more long than round, but not fharp 

 pointed ; it is of a pale green or yellow 

 colour, and fometimes faintly ftained with 

 red on the fide towards the fun -, it has a 

 longifh ftalk, and bears plentifully in large 

 clufters ', it has a very agreeable juice, and 

 its flefh is tender; it ripens at the end of 

 July, and beginning of Auguft : and as 

 this tree makes ftifF healthy (hoots, it will 

 do extremely well in a ftandard, with pro- 

 per cutting, admit it is propagated on a 

 free ftock ; but the fruit does not ripen fo 



early 



