FIGS. 163 



5. SMALL BLUE. Hort. Soc. Cat. 12. 



Little Blue. Hanbury. 



Fruit below the middle size, with a short footstalk. 



blue, thin. Pulp red, of very good flavour. 

 Ripe in August. 



SECT. II. Fruit red or purple. 



6. BOURDEAUX. Duliamel, t. 2. f. 2. 

 Figue-Poire. Ib. Vol. i. p. 213. 



Violette de Bourdeaux. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 70. 



Fruit pretty long, of a pyramidal figure, rounded 

 at the apex, and a little pinched in towards the stalk, 

 about three inches long, and two inches in diameter. 

 Skin brownish red, becoming deep violet when fully 

 matured, slightly mottled with a few greenish specks. 

 Pulp deep red or purple, succulent and sweet. 



This is cultivated throughout France, and produces 

 two crops annually, both of which in a warm season are 

 good, although not possessing veiy high flavour. 



7. BROWN TURKEY. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 64. 

 Brown Italian. Forsyth, Ed. 7. No. 9. 

 Fruit small and round. Pulp very delicious. 



This and the Black Italian are mentioned by Mr. 

 Forsyth, as being cultivated by him in pots, and each 

 possessing equal merit. 



8. BRUNSWICK. Pom. Mag. t. 48. 

 Madonna. Miller, 9. 



Hanover. Of some Gardens, according to the Pom. 

 Mag. 



Fruit very large, obovate, fleshy, with an oblique 

 apex. Eye rather depressed. Stalk short and thick. 

 Skin pale green on the shaded side, with a tinge of 

 yellow ; next the sun, dull brownish red, sprinkled with 

 small pale brown specks. Flesh pinkish in the interior, 



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