34 PEARS. 



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of a sweet and musky flavour ; the fruit is at maturity during 

 the month >{' Aug-ust. 



We have received from Provence, says the Ni w Duham 1, a 

 Robine pear, which differs a little from the one just described, 

 not in respect to the size and form which are decidedly the same, 

 but because the stem rises from a cavity whose edges are even and 

 regular ; the eye less deeply sunk, and the skin remains green 

 when the fruit is at perfect maturity, and even when it becomes 

 soft. Duhame] in the original edition, when speaking of the 

 Kobine pear, says that it does not readily become soft and 

 decay. 



GRISE BONNE. Evel. Roz. Duh. Coxe. 



Good gray pear. 

 Ambrette d^et^, 

 Crapaudme. Quin. Evel. 



Toad pear, Gr iy good, or Summer Amhrefte. Evel. 

 Rude Epee. 



This is a fruit of moderate size, of an oblong and somewhat 

 cucumber form, being thirty lines in height by twenty-two in 

 breadth ; the head is quite round, and the eye is placed even 

 with the extremity ; the stem is large, from nine to twelve lines 

 in length, and rises obliquely from a small cavity ; the skin is 

 of a greenish gray, speckled with whitish dots over the whole 

 surface and touched in some places with russet ; the flesh is 

 melting, rich and sweet, and the fruit is ripe during the month 

 of August. 



GHAIR A DAME. Pr. cat. Quin. Evel. Roz. Duh. For. 



Chere Adame. Roz. syn. Duh. syn. 

 Lady flesh. Evel. 



This pear is twenty-six lines in height and twenty-two in 

 diameter, with a large short stem, not exceeding at most nine 

 lines in length, and almost invariably placed obliquely in the 

 fruit amid some small protuberances. The skin is yellow, 



