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excellent taste. In fact this fruit has the same flavour as our 

 far-famed Seckel, (of which it is undoubtedly the parent,) 

 though in a less degree, and the growth of the tree also bears 

 much affinity to that of our well known favourite, but the 

 shoots are longer and grow more vigorously. The seeds are 

 large and brown, and the fruit ripens the beginning of Sep- 

 tember. It is much better on standard trees than on espaliers, 

 but does not grow so large, and the trees can be readily pro- 

 pagated on both pear and quince stocks ; and when they have 

 attained to a suitable age for bearings they yield abundant 

 crops. 



GREAT ROUSSELET. Pr. cat. Fok. 



Ro..Duh.Mil. 



Russelet. Quin ? Evel ? 



Large Rousselet. Pr. cat. 25 ed. 



Ronsselet, Poire du Rousselet, or The Rousselet. Mil. 



King of summer. 



This pear is two inches and' nine lines in height, and six 

 lines less in its diameter, with a stem sixteen to eighteen lines 

 in length, which is often implanted in a little cavity encom- 

 passed by swellings or projections. The skin is green on the 

 shade side, and brownish red next the sun, dotted all over 

 with small grey points. The flesh is half-breaking, perfumed, 

 somewhat acid and of agreeable taste. The seeds are elon- 

 gated and the fruit ripens at the end of August or first part of 

 September. The growth of the tree is vigorous, and it is 

 propagated with equal facility on the quince as on the pear. 



WINTER ROUSSELET. Pr. cat. Mil. For. 



Rousselet d' hyver. Roz. Duh. Mil. 



Rousseleite d^yver. 



Winter russelet. Evel. Coxe ? 



This fruit is pyriform and two inches in height by eighteen 

 lines in diameter. The eye is even with the extremity of the 



