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- PEARS, 374 Cents, ‘Pyne: communis. 
Class, Icosandria. Order, Pentagynia. 
{ The varieties of Pears are so numerous, that the European and American 
kinds together would form a list of several hundreds. .A succession of. 
the best kinds, or what is termed in France the Circle of Pears, afford- 
ing the best sorts for the table, and for culinary purposes, throughout the 
year, py be selected from the following, which are of the most approved 
kinds. 
M denotes melting pears. 
B baking or preserving pears. 
ae P perry pears. 
1 Primitive | ripe in July* 
2 Supreme, little musk, or petit muscat | do 
3 Early sugar do 
4 Green chisel, cztron de carmes, or madeleine, M do 
5 Red muscadelle, twice bearing, M do 
6 Summer beauty, or bellissme d’été do | 
7 Sugartop, July, or harvest ‘~. do 
8 Petit muscat, sept en gueule, or early cluster do 
9 Jargonelle, M August. 
10 Cuisse madame 
11 Skinless, early rousselette, poire sans peau, or fleur de 
Guignes, M do 
12 Avorat, August muscat, or poire royale, M do 
13 Fondante d’été, summer melting, M do 
14 Windsor, M da 
15 Summer rousselette, gros rousseletie, or rot ete do 
16 Late green chisel, M | do 
17 Gross blanquet, or mussette d’ Anjou, M do 
18 Muscat robert, muscat d’ambre, or poire ala reine do 
19 Early Catharine, rousselet hatif do 
20 Musk summer bon chretien, bed/ pear, or bon chretien | 
deté musqué, M do 
21 Summer bergamot, bergamotte d’éte, or Milan, M do 
22 'T'wo headed, deux tétes AS do 
23 Crawford Bie ae ap do 
24 Aurate | ile 
25 Epargne, beau present, or St. Samson, M ~ do 
26 Julienne, archduc d’été, or summer beurré do 
27 Red bergamot, bergamotte rouge or crasanne d’été do 
28 Salviati September. 
29 Ognonet, or brown admired do 
30 Autumn golden russet | do 
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