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ai^ iTOt gattered at their firft begirinlhg to 

 turn yellow. 



The tree makes long crooked fhoots, that 

 ai^ fubjeft to canker; for which re^fon I 

 think \is the fitteft for walls or dwarfs, 

 and kept with proper cutting. 



There 'are two Blanquet, or blanket 

 pears, tlie great, and the fmall, but the lat- 

 ter I efteem the beft; it is fometimes called 

 the pearl pear; it ripens about the end of 

 Auguft, and is admirably good, being quite 

 melting, and full of a rich juice. It is 

 but a fmall pear, of a longifli fhape, and 

 quite yellow; it bears its fruit in cluFcers, 

 and in gi*eat plenty, but its fhoots are 

 very weak, and not proper for a flandard- 

 tree. 



The furiimer Bergamy differs but little 

 from that valuable and Well known pear 

 the Autumn Bergamy ; the former has riioft 

 of the perfections of the latter, but is of 

 a green colour, and its time of ripening 

 is earlier, being about the end of Auguft ; 

 it ife a healthy ilrong tree, and will bear up- 

 on a ftandard. 



Of the rofe pears there are two forts both 



extremely good ; the one is called the curled 



Y 4 rofe 



