KINDS OF FRUITS. 1?3 



streaks on the side next the sun. When well rip- 

 ened, it is high-flavoured, and very juicy. The 

 tree grows freely in ordinary garden soils, and will 

 thrive and bear better in light land than most other 

 pears. 



2. Cressane* This is an excellent fruit, and es- 

 teemed the best of the bergamots. It is very high- 

 flavoured when fully ripened ; of a roundish, mo- 

 derate size, and greyish colour, and full of small 

 brown specks. Of the bergamots, it is the best 

 keeper, though none of them keep long. In order 

 to have it in perfection, it requires a good wall, the 

 full sun, and a good loamy soil. 



3. Colmar. This is a long, large fruit, of a rich 

 flavour, when fully matured ; but for that purpose 

 it requires the very best soils and situations, parti- 

 cularly in the northern parts of Britain ; and it is 

 even but in the best of seasons that it attains to 

 perfection. Its colour is then a greenish yellow. 

 Generally speaking, it cannot be called a great bear- 

 er, but it is a good keeper. 



4. Beurre, de Roy ; Brown Beurre ; or, Red 

 Beurre, (denominations which perhaps depend on 

 the colour of the soil in which the tree may grow.) 

 It is an excellent fruit ; high-flavoured, large, an(J 

 rather longish than round. The tree is a pretty ^ 

 free grower, but requires both a good soil and cli- 

 mate, and likewise a good wall. 



5. Swan Egg. A good fruit, and in tolerably 

 good soil, a great bearer. It is a late pear, and a 

 pretty good keeper. Egg-shaped, and greenish. 



6. Autumn Bergamot. A very good, high-flavour- 



