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La Merveille. See Merveille d'Hiver. 



Merveille de Chameu. See Fondante de Chameu. 



MERVEILLE D'HIVER {Petit Oin ; Petit Oing ; La Merveille). 

 — Eruit, medium sized ; roundish, inclining to roundish turbinate, some- 

 what uneven on the surface. Skin, smooth and unctuous to the feel ; 

 hence the name of Petit Oin ; bright green changing to yellowish 

 green as it ripens, and strewed with small brown dots, and occasionally 

 with a faint tinge of dark red next the sun. Eye, large and open, set 

 in a considerable depression. Stalk, three-quarters of an inch long, 

 somewhat obliquely inserted in a small cavity, which is higher on one 

 side than on the other. Flesh, white, tender, buttery, and melting, 

 and of a rich, sweet, and musky flavour. 



A dessert pear ; ripe during November. The tree is a good but un- 

 certain bearer, vigorous in a rich warm soil, and requires to be grown 

 against a wall to have the fruit in perfection, but does not succeed well 

 on the quince. The fruit becomes russety on a standard tree. 



Merlet makes the Merveille d'Hiver and Petit Oin two different varieties ; but 

 his descriptions are so much alike, there can be no doubt they are the same variety, 

 as it is subject to vary in its characters by soil and situation. 



Merveille de la Nature. See Easter Beurre. 



MESSIRE JEAN {Chaulis ; John; John Dory; Messire Jean 

 Blanc ; Messire Jaune Dore ; Monsieur John). — Fruit, medium sized ; 

 turbinate, and sometimes slightly obovate. Skin, dark green, becoming 

 yellowish as it ripens, thickly covered with brown russet, particularly 

 on the side next the sun. Eye, small and open, with short erect 

 segments, and set in a shallow plaited basin. Stalk, an inch and a 

 half long, inserted in a rather deep round cavity. Flesh, white, crisp, 

 very juicyj and of a rich, sugary flavour, but gritty. 



A dessert pear ; ripe in November and December. The tree bears 

 well as a standard, is vigorous and healthy when grown in a light, dry 

 soil ; succeeds well either on the pear or the quince. 



Miel de Waterloo. See Fondante de Chameu, 

 Milan Blane. See Summer Franc Real. 

 Milan. See Bergamotte Cadette. 

 Milan de la Beuvriere. See Summer Franc Real. 

 Milan de Bordeaux. See Bergamotte Cadette. 

 Milanaise Cuvelier. See Winter Nelis. 



MILAN DE ROUEN. — Fruit, small, two inches and a quarter 

 high and the same in width; bergamot-shaped, even and regular 

 in its outline. Skin, very much covered with cinnamon-coloured 

 rasset, except here and there, where a few patches of the greenish 

 yellow ground colour shines through ; on the side which has been ex- 

 posed to the sun there are broken streaks of rather dark bright crimson. 



