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PEARS. 



greenish points, and is breaking, rather sweet, and highly 

 musky. The seeds are small and brown, and the fruit ripens 

 at the end of August, or early in September. It is one of the 

 best pears of that season, but is subject to split and crack be- 

 fore it attains to maturity. The tree does not succeed by in- 

 grafting on the quince, and is delicate when ingrafted on the 

 pear. Mr. Coxe, in his work on fruit trees, has transposed the 

 titles of this and the preceding variety. 



MANSUETTE. Ps. cat. 0. Dun. 



Solitaire. N. Duh. O. Duh. syn. 

 Mansuette solitaire. Roz. Bon Jard. 

 Solitary Mansuette. Auth. 



The form of this pear has but little regularity, approximating 

 in a great degree to that of the Winter Bonchretien, (Bon 

 Chretien d'hyver) but with fewer projections and undulations. 

 Its height is three inches five lines, and its diameter two inches 

 seven lines, with a stem twelve or fourteen lines in length, which 

 commonly rises obliquely, and has at its junction a swelling or 

 protuberance, and some compressed furrows. The skin is 

 green, speckled with brown, and sometimes entirely of the lat- 

 ter colour on the shade side ; the part next the sun becomes a 

 little yellowish, and even acquires a slight tint of red at the 

 period at which the fruit attains to maturity. The fiesh is 

 white, half melting, quite juicy, accompanied by a little sharp- 

 ness of flavour. The seeds are small, broad, and light brown. 

 The fruit ripens about the beginning of September, and soon 

 becomes soft. The tree can be grafted more advantageously 

 on the quince than on the pear. 



MARTIN SIRE. N. Duh. 



This is a very different fruit from the one described in Du- 

 hamel as the RonviUe or Martin Sire, of which I shall next 

 give a description. li is a very handsome pear, whose 



