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PEARS. 



EARLY ROUSSELET. Pr. cat. For. 



Rousselet Jiatif, Roz. Duh. 

 Poire de Chypre, } ^ t\ u 



Perdreau, ] ^y"- ^uh. syn. 



Cyprus pear, 



Catherine, or Kattern, of the Bostonians, according to Fess. 

 Amer. Gardiner. 



This fruit is small and pyriform, twenty-two to twenty-four 

 lines in height, and eighteen to twenty in its greatest diameter, 

 it is rounded at the head with a partial cavity to receive the 

 eye. The stem is large in proportion to the fruit, and is 

 rarely more than nine or ten lines in length. The skin is 

 delicate, yellowish in the shade, and of a rather lively red, 

 mingled with small grey spots next the sun. The flesh is 

 white, with a partial tint of yellow, half-breaking, of an agree- 

 able fragrance, with a sweet and perfumed flavour. This 

 pear ripens here at the end of July, and greatly resembles 

 the Rousselet de Rheims, but has less flavour and perfume. 

 In Fessenden's Amer. Gardener, it is stated that this variety is 

 known around Boston by the title of Catherine, or as pro- 

 nounced Kattern,h\it some confusion exists there on this head, 



ROUSSELETTE DE RHEIMS. Pr. cat. Duh, 



Rousselet de Reims. Roz. 



Rousselet of Rheims, ^ 



Petit rousselet, v of various authors. 



Musk or Spice, y 



Late Catharine, } r * n ^- 



Autumn Catharine, \ of some American collections. 



Musk, Spice, or Rousselet de Rheims. Coxe. 



This fruit is also pyriform, about two and a quarter inches 

 in height, and twenty lines in diameter, the eye is large and 

 even with the fruit, the stem is eight or ten lines in length ; 

 the skin is green on the shade side, but becomes yellowish at 

 perfect maturity, the sun side attains a brownish red hue, and 

 is entirely covered with greyish dots. The flesh is half-melt- 

 ing, musky, enriched by a peculiar perfume, which imparts an 



