682 THE PEAR. 



turbinate, angiilar. Skin yellowish, considerably shaded with 

 crimson, thickly sprinkled with crimson dots. Stalk long. Calyx 

 open ; broad, shallow, uneven basin. Flesh breaking, a little 

 coarse, sweet, and aromatic ; rots at the core unless gathered 

 <4arly. Last of August. 



Sucre Vert. Thomp. Brivort. 



Green Sugar. 



Fruit medium or small, oblate, inclining to turbinate. Skin 

 green. Stalk medium, fleshy at its insertion in a very slight 

 cavity ; basin shallow. Flesh juicy, melting, sweet, and plea- 

 sant. October. 



Sugar Top. Thomp. 



July Pear. Prince's Sugar. 

 Prince's Sugar Top. 



Fruit roundish-top-shaped. Skin smooth, yellow. Flesh 

 white, somewhat juicy and breaking, sweet, but with little fla- 

 vour. Last of July. 



SUCREE DE HOYERSWERDA. Thomp. 



Sugar of Hoyersworda, 



A pleasant German pear, of peculiar flavour, good when 

 ripened in the house. It bears immense crops. Fruit small, 

 obovate. Skin pale yellowish-green, thickly sprinkled with 

 greenish-russet dots. 



Flesh white, quite juicy, with a sweet and piquant flavour. 

 It does not keep long. Last of August. 



Summer St. Germain. Thomp. 



Short's Samt Germain. Saint Germain de Martin. 



St. Germain d']6te. K Duh. 



A pleasant, juicy, summer pear, of second rate flavour, bear- 

 ing large crops. 



Fruit of medium size, obovate. Skin pale green all over the 

 surface. Stalk an inch and a quarter long, obliquely inserted. 

 Calyx large, in a basin scarcely sunken. Flesh juicy, tender, 

 with a very slight acid. Last of August. 



Summer Franc Real. Thomp. Lind. P. Mag. 



Franc Real d':6te. Diel Gros Micet d']6te. 



Fondante, Knoop. Green Chisel? 



Green Sugar. 



Fruit of mediuiri size, obovate, but largest in the middle, and 

 tapering each vmiv. Skin pale yellowish-gi*een, dotted with 



