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PEARS. 



SUMMER BEAUTY. Pr. cat. 



SSe.'., \ ^0^- ^"l^- Mil. Fo. 



Bellissime, or Super-fair. Evel. 



Muscadelle Rouge, } 



The Fairest, or Supreme, ^ ^ ' 



Red Muscadelle. Mil. For. 



Red Muscadel, of some English collections. 



Beauty of summer. 



Poire fgue. Die. d'Agric. syn. (? Auth.) 



This pear, so called in France, and which I have latterly 

 introduced, is very distinct from the one formerly cultivated 

 by myself, and still generally cultivated by others under the 

 same name. The latter appears to belong to either the Muscat 

 or Muscadelle family described in this work. I am not fully 

 certain that the Red Muscadelle of the English is the same as 

 this, as there seems great confusion in the application of its 

 synonymes. The fruit is twenty-four lines in height and twenty 

 in diameter, and almost pyriform, having the base well rounded^ 

 and the space where the eye is placed being rather flattened 

 than hollowed. The skin is smooth and light green on the 

 shade side, which attains a lemon colour at maturity, mingled 

 with some tints of pale red ; the whole side exposed to the 

 rays of the sun is of a very deep red colour ; the flesh is half- 

 melting, sweet and of agreeable taste, but not high-flavoured^ 

 The seeds are black, and the fruit ripens in July. The tree 

 is of the most vigorous growth, and forms very strong and 

 thrifty shoots the first year from the graft or bud, and may 

 with equal ease be propagated on the quince and the pear. 



I quote the Red Muscadelle of the seventh edition of For- 

 syth as a synonyme ; but the circumstance which he relates, a^ 

 well as other English writers, that this tree produces two crops 

 in a year, is not deemed correct. 



BLOODY. Evel. Pr. cat. 

 Sanguinole. Quin. Evel. Roz. Duh. 

 This fruit is twenty to twenty-four lines in height, and 



