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form, being three inches in height, without any augmentation 

 of the diameter. The stem is sixteen or seventeen lines in 

 length, and commonly placed even with the surface, and the eye 

 is similarly situated or in a depression scarcely perceptible ; 

 the flesh is melting, rich, of rather sweet flavour, and imparts 

 to the mouth an agreeable coolness ; the seeds are large and 

 swollen, short and terminated by an acute point, and the fruit 

 ripens in November and December, and sometimes as early as 

 the end of October. 



GERMAN MUSCAT. Pr. cat. Evel. For. Coxe. 



Muscat VAUeman, Duh. Mil. For. 



Muscat V Allemand. 



Muscat Allemand. Roz. Coxe. 



Almain, Quin. Evel. 



Muscat of Germany. Mil. 



In regard to form, size, and colour, this fruit bears great 

 resemblance to the Royal Winter — it only difiers in common 

 by being more enlarged near the head and sometimes more 

 pyriform ; the flesh has also nearly the same colour and con- 

 sistence, but diflers from it in possessing a musky and richer 

 flavour; the seeds are dark brown and very oblong, when 

 they are not abortive. The fruit only begins ripening in Jan- 

 uary, and keeps in some cases until May ; the tree is vigo- 

 rous, and may be ingrafted on both the pear and quince. 



ROYAL WINTER. Pr. cat. Coxe. 



Royale d'hiver. Roz. Duh. For. 



Winter royal. 



This pear is most frequently of a turbinate form, and some- 

 times nearly globular, being thirty to thirty-two lines in dia- 

 meter, and thirty-two to thirty-four in height — it is not rare 

 however to find some of a much larger size and measuring 

 three inches three lines in height by three inches in breadth ; 

 the eye is placed in a very broad shallow depression, and the 



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