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PEARS. 



nine in breadth. The position of the eye is nearly even with 

 the fruit. The skin is smooth, light green, scattered over with 

 very numerous small specks of a deeper shade of the same 

 colour : but when at perfect maturity, the green changes to a 

 yellowish hue. The flesh is partially melting, and sweet, with 

 more or less richness, and is quite pleasant to the taste. The 

 seeds are brown and oblong, and the fruit ripens at the end 

 of October. The tree is of very thrifty and vigorous growth, 

 extremely productive, and produces its fruit in clusters. It 

 may be propagated on both pear and quince stocks. 



VINE, OR LADY'S. Pk. cat. 



Poire de Vigne. Duh. Mil, 

 Vigne Demoiselle. Roz. 

 Vigne, } Q^.^^ 

 Vemoiselle, ) 

 Vine pear. Mil. For. 

 Vine, or Damsel. Evel. 



The form of this pear is that of a top. It is two inches in 

 height, and two lines less in its greatest diameter, with a stem 

 from eighteen to twenty lines in length. The skin is rough 

 to the touch, and of a russet-gray colour. The flesh is half- 

 melting and rather rich, but soon becomes mealy, and then 

 loses its flavour. The seeds are dark brown, large in propor- 

 tion to the size of the fruit, which ripens in October. 



MARTIN.SEC. Pk. cat. Roz. Duh. For. Coxe. 



Dry Martin. 



Rousselet cVhyver, ^ ^ , 



Winter Rousselet, ^ J' 



This fruit is two inches in diameter, and two inches and six 

 or seven lines in height, but often of smaller size : it is also 

 pyriform, terminating in a point at the stem, which varies 

 greatly in its length, from eight or nine lines to eighteen. 

 The eye is close set in a small cavity, bordered with furrows 



