PEARS. 



95 



in breadth and three inches in height, to three inches four lines 

 in diameter and three inches seven lines in height—this latter 

 measurement is that which Duhamel gives of some pears of 

 this kind, which were sent to him from Chaumontel itself ; but 

 it appears that this fruit can far surpass these dimensions^ for 

 M. Vanakere of Lille, sent to M. Michel a Chaumontel pear, 

 which was a foot in circumference, five inches in height, and 

 four inches wanting two lines in diameter, and which weighed 

 one pound four and a half ounces. In regard to the other 

 points, the peduncle, which is almost invariably less than an 

 inch in length, is often inserted somewhat laterally, sometimes 

 even with the fruit, and at others in a shallow depression sur- 

 rounded by small projections ; the eye is situated in a cavity 

 varying in size, surrounded with swellings, but sometimes en- 

 tirely even and regular ; the skin is usually yellowish, speck- 

 led with gray and marked on the sunny side with paler or 

 brighter red — sometimes when the gray predominates over the 

 surface there is no red visible, but that colour on the other 

 hand is more wide-spread and of a brighter hue, when the 

 shade side of the fruit is of a lemon colour ; the flesh is very 

 melting and abounds with juice, which is sweet, musky, and 

 very agreeable ; the seeds are light brown, and the fruit ripens 

 in December and keeps until February. It takes its name 

 from the locality where it originated about one hundred and 

 sixty years since. It is very extensively cultivated and de- 

 serves to be so ; it may be ingrafted on either the quince or 

 pear. 



ST. GERMAIN. Pr. gat. Evel. Mil, Foe. Coxe, 



Saint Germain, } n d t\ u h/t-i 



InconnuelaFare, ] ^"^^ ^'I- 

 Saint Germain hlanc. 



Unknown La Fare. Evel^ Mil. 



This pear is three inches and six to nine lines in height, and 

 twenty-eight to thirty lines in its greatest diameter, which is at 

 about a third of its height ; the stem, which seldom exceeds 



