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PEARS. 



fruit, and the stem, which is six or eight lines in length, is in- 

 serted in a small cavity. The skin is greenish on the shade 

 side, and brownish red on that next the sun, the flesh is half- 

 breaking, tolerably juicy, and of rather a rich taste ; the seeds 

 are round, short, and of a light brown colour, and the fruit 

 is at maturity in February and March. The tree is of very 

 thrifty growth and succeeds on both pear and quince. Miller 

 remarks that this pear is by some supposed to be the same as 

 that called the Dry Martin, but that it is very different. 



BRITISH RUSSET. Auth. 



Roussette de Bretagne. N. Duh. Calvel. 

 Bousselet de Grande Bretagne, Pr. cat. 7 



This fruit is turbinate and flattened at the head, where the 

 eye is placed in a pretty deep cavity, and the stem is also 

 inserted within a depression. The flesh is white, almost 

 melting, with a partially acid flavour, and possesses a taste 

 somewhat resembhng that of the Crasanne. It ripens in 

 October and November, and the tree is vigorous. This 

 variety, which is thus described in Duhamel, as different from 

 the other pears cultivated in France, may no doubt (if it was 

 carried from England) be synonymous with some one of the 

 English pears described in their standard works. A pear has 

 been recently imported into this country under the title given 

 as the last synonyme, which I have thought it probable might 

 refer to the same fruit, and I consequently subjoined it with an 

 expression of doubt ; time not having yet elapsed suflicient 

 for the necessary investigation. 



MUSCADELLE. N. Duh. 



Muscadelle d calyce caduque. 



This French Muscadelle pear is a small fruit, seventeen or 

 eighteen lines in breadth and of nearly the same height, which 



