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often liable to get tainted by the bad. This was in the pear-room 

 at Baron Rothschild's, and a naore pleasing sight could not be pre- 

 sented to the lover of a garden — the successive shelves of splendid 

 fruit being so arranged that every individual pear could be examined 

 without touching one. I need scarcely say that in the case of a 

 fruit requiring so much nicety of judgment and attention as the 

 pear does, in the gardener who makes the most of his collection, 

 and has each kind, or even each perfect fruit, eaten at the right 

 time, this is a great gain. 



