338 A TREATISE OP 



La Echaflerie is a middle-fized pear, of 

 an oval fliape, with a long ftalk, and beared 

 in clufters 3 it is green upon the tree, and 

 the fide next the fun is a little brown, but 

 it turns yellower in ripening, which is in 

 December: the flefh is melting, and the 

 juice well tafted, but it does not hold fo 

 long in eating as foma others. This tree 

 is not fit for a ftandard, neither is the fruit 

 good againfl: a north wall, but it generally 

 bears plentifully, with proper order, either 

 againfl: a wefl:, eafl:, or fouth wall, and 

 likewife oil a dwarf or efpalier. 



The Ambrette is a fmall pear, of a round 

 fhape, and a dark brown colour on the 

 fide next the fun ^ but the other is more 

 green, and changes yellow in ripening, 

 which is in December and January: the 

 flefli is quite melting, and full of fweet 

 perfumed juice 5 the fruit grows in cluf- 

 ters and in great plenty, if the tree be in 

 good order, either againfl: a wall, or in any 

 kind of dwarf, but it is not fit for a ftand- 

 ard, becaufe it makes but weak fhoots t 

 the leaves are long and narrow, and the 

 wood is thorny. 



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