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of golden pippens : it has a hard breaking 

 flefh, but full of juice, which is very rich 

 and perfumed. It ripens at the latter end 

 of September, and makes a very healthy 

 tree -, it bears well on dwarfs, but I never 

 faw it grow a ftandard. 



The muficed Bon cliretien is a middk 

 fized pear, of a yellow colour, v/ith a large 

 eye, fomewhat round in its make, but 

 narrow towards the ftalk, which is long 

 and fmall ; it has a hard flelli, but the 

 juice is very pleafant, and is in eating 

 from the middle of September to the end : 

 its leaves are very much like thofe of the 

 winter Bon chretien, fo are its fhoots, but 

 they are very fubje6l to canker, and for 

 that reafon it is not proper for a ftandard : 

 it is beft againft a v;all, but does not re- 

 quire a fouth afpecl, for either north-eaft 

 or north-weft will afford it fun enough. 



The fummer Bon chretien, or good 

 chriftian^ is a large pear of a fine yellow 

 colour, and faintly covered with a dark 

 red or brown on the fide next the fun j it 

 is of a very long make, and fmall next the 

 ftalk, which is of a great length, like the 

 other Bon chretiens, as is alfo the core, 

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