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Boussock, a large, roundish fruit, full of juice if 

 picked early. Superfine, medium size, very 

 juicy, sub-acid and excellent in quality. Ur- 

 baniste, not an early but an abundant bearer; 

 fruit of good size, pale yellow, juicy, melting, 

 excellent. Mount Vernon, a good-sized russet- 

 brown fruit, with a peculiar cinnamon flavor ; 

 may not prove productive. Clairgeau, one of 

 the largest and most attractive ; pyriform, yellow, 

 shaded with orange and crimson; flesh granu- 

 lar, often coarse and poor. Diel, large, obtuse, 

 slightly coarse, but melting and excellent ; of 

 late the fruit has .been liable to crack and the 

 tree is subject to blight. Duchesse d' AngoulSme : 

 this very large fruit is well known, and when 

 well grown it ranks as very good, and is a profit- 

 able market variety. When small it is worth- 

 less. It is best on the quince stock. Vicar is a 

 large, long pyriform fruit of moderate quality, 

 but excellent for cooking. Its uniform produc- 

 tiveness and long continuance render it valuable 

 for this purpose. Nelis : the tree is slender 

 and straggling in growth, and liable to overbear, 

 when it produces very small and* inferior fruit. 

 When at its best the fruit is medium in size, 

 fine-grained, vinous, aromatic, and excellent ; 

 skin yellowish-green, much russeted. Aremberg : 

 A most delicious winter pear, but the tree is of 



