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Its skin is green, even when the fruit is ripe. 



Its flesh is very tender, fine, delicate, white, and not gritty. But it softens quickly. 

 The juice is plentiful, sweet, sugary, and has a most pleasant fragrance & flavor. 

 The seeds are long, black, & very full. 



This pear ripens at the beginning of October. Its stalk is not firmly attached to the 

 branch, & the slightest breeze easily detaches it. 



LXXIV. PEAR TREE with large, long green autumn fruit streaked with yellow bands. 

 VERTE-LONGUE panachee, ou Suisse. (PL XXXVII.) 



The variegated Verte-longue is a variety of the preceding one & usually is not as 

 large. 



The shoots are streaked with green & yellow. 



When this pear tree is grafted on a quince tree or planted in soil that's too dry, it's 

 quite normal to find variegated leaves on it. 



The skin of this pear is streaked lengthwise with yellow & green & is speckled 

 with brown or with dark green. Sometimes the yellow stripes are lightly tinged with red 

 on the side in the sun. 



As for all the rest of it, there's no difference at all from the common Verte-longue. 



This pear has been known only for about ninety years. Merlet says that he 

 discovered & publicized the first one. 



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