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PEARS, 



MUSCAT FLEURI. Pr. cat. Roz, Duh, 



Muscat d longue queue d^automne, J 



Long stalked muscat of autumn, > Mil. syn. erroneously. 

 Flowered Muscat, ) 



This little pear would be perfectly globular, if it was not 

 partially flattened at the summit and base, which causes its 

 diameter to rather surpass its height, the former measuring 

 fourteen lines, and the latter twelve. The peduncle is very 

 long in proportion to the size of the fruit, being often twenty 

 lines in length. The skin is smooth and of a green hue, but 

 attains at maturity a light yellow tinge on the shade side, and a 

 red mingled with fawn colour on the side next the sun. The 

 flesh is slightly greenish, half-melting, not very high flavoured, 

 but somewhat musky. The seeds are very small, of a light 

 brown colour, and the fruit ripens at the end of July. Quin- 

 tinye speaks of a Muscat-Fleuri then cultivated in France that 

 ripened the middle of October, to which the three synonymes 

 above apply, and Miller most unaccountably annexes them to 

 this variety, and even quotes the description of that pear, al- 

 though it is totally distinct and a dark red fruit, 



RED MUSCAT. Pr. cat. 



Muscat rouge, Duh. 



This pear is small, pyriform, of a yellowish green colour 

 where shaded, and a pleasant red next to the sun ; the flesh 

 is breaking and perfumed, and the fruit ripens at the end of 

 August, 



AURATE. Pr. cat. Roz. Duh. Coxe. 



Poire dor^e. 

 Muscat de Nancy, 



This fruit has frequently the shape of a top, being fifteen 

 lines in height, and of the same diameter ; the eye is placed in 

 a shallow cavity ; the stem is rather large in proportion to the 



