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Its skin is quite thin, light green, and speckled with very small darker green spots. 



Its flesh is white, coarse & crisp. 



The juice is quite plentiful, musky & a little sweet. 



The seeds are big, black, and quite full. 



This is a type of early Orange pear that ripens in July. 



XXVIII. PEAR TREE with large orange-shaped winter fruit, partly yellow, partly a beautiful & 

 rich red. 



POIR1ER de Jardin. (PL XIX. fig. 3.) 



The Poire de Jardin is big, flattened at the top and is shaped like the Orange pears. 

 The eye is set in a usually smooth & quite deep cavity. The stalk is greenish white, thick 

 at the end, about eight or nine lignes long and inserts into a small, narrow & not very 

 deep recess. The fruit is two-&-a-half inches in diameter & two inches three lignes high. 



Its skin is somewhat pimply. On the side in the sun it's a beautiful deep red 

 speckled with golden yellow spots. The shaded side is streaked & lined with light red on 

 a yellow background. 



Its flesh is semi-crisp, a bit coarse & sometimes a little gritty around the seeds. 



The juice is sweet & has a most delicious flavor. 



The seeds are long, dark brown, & are spaced wide apart. The axis is hollow. 



This is a delicious fruit & it ripens in December. Different kinds of soil cause 

 considerable variation in size. 



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