PEARS. 345 



Mansuette Solitaire. Jard. fruit, t. 43. 



Fruit pretty large, of a somewhat turbinate figure, 

 compressed below the middle, and a little incurved to- 

 wards the stalk ; about three inches and three quarters 

 long, and two inches and three quarters in diameter. 

 Eye rather small, with an erect calyx, placed in a deep, 

 plaited, angular basin. Stalk an inch long, bent, very 

 obliquely inserted in an irregular cavity. Skin green, 

 spotted with brown ; but as it ripens it becomes yellow 

 and tinged with red. Flesh white, half melting, and 

 full of a well flavoured juice. 



Ripe the beginning and middle of September. 



This is better grafted on the Quince than on the Pear. 



27. MUSK SUMMER BONCHRETIEN. Nursery Cat. 

 Bonchretien d'E'te Musquee. Duhamel^Q.^l. t.48. 

 Fruit above the middle size, somewhat pyramidal, 



compressed between the middle and the stalk, about 

 three inches long, and two inches and a half in diameter. 

 Eye rather large and open, with a crisp calyx, placed in 

 a wide, irregular, angular basin. Stalk one inch and a 

 half long, enlarged next the branch, and somewhat ob- 

 liquely inserted with but little cavity. Skin greenish 

 yellow, with a little grey russet ; but on the sunny side 

 of a brownish red, full of rough russetty specks. Flesh 

 white and crisp, with an abundant, sugary, high-flavoured 

 musky juice. 



Ripe the beginning and middle of September. 



This does not succeed at all upon the Quince. 



It is sold by many nurserymen for the Summer Bon- 

 chretien, a different Pear. The wood and manner of 

 growth of the Musk- Bonchretien is a good deal like the 

 Jargonelle ; but the leaves of this are smooth at all 

 times, in the Jargonelle they are covered with a thick 

 pubescent down, especially in the spring and early part 

 of the summer months. 



28. ORANGE TULIPEE. Duhamel, No. 79. t.41. 



