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PEAR5. 



a light brown colour, and the fruit commences ripening in 

 November, and keeps sometimes to the end of January ; the 

 tree requires a good exposure — in soils that are dry it should 

 be grafted on the pear, and in humid soils on the quince. 



WONDER OF WINTER. Pr. cat. Mil. SYN. COXE, 



Merveille d^hiver. Roz. Dull. Mil. syn. Coxe. 

 Petit oin, Roz. Duh. syn. Mil. syn. 

 Bouvar. Mil. 

 Little lard, i 

 Amaaont, ^ 



Rousset, or Rousseite d^Anjou. Mil. erroneously. 



This pear is usually round, being twenty-six lines in diame- 

 ter and twenty-eight in height ; the part about the head is 

 quite round, and the eye, which is large, is situated even with 

 the fruit ; the stem is slender, short, and a little curved, and is 

 inserted within a small cavity — sometimes it is rather long and 

 its junction even with the extremity of the fruit ; the skin 

 is somewhat rough, greenish, and often scattered over with 

 small protuberances, and changes to a yellowish hue at matu- 

 rity ; the flesh is melting, of a sweet flavour, musky, and very 

 agreeable to the taste. This fruit ripens in November, and 

 the tree is handsome when ingrafted on the pear, but does not 

 do well on the quince. It is very productive, but in order to 

 have excellent fruit, it should be planted in a soil which is nei- 

 ther cold nor humid, and in a good exposure. 



VITRIER. Pe. cat. Roz. Duh. 



This pear is large and oval, being two inches and a half in 

 diameter, and two inches ten lines in height ; the eye is large 

 and quite open, very slightly depressed, and the stem, which is 

 moderately large and about an inch in length, is inserted even 

 with the fruit amid some projections ; the skin is smooth, deep 

 red speckled with brown points on the sunny side, and on the 

 shade side of a light green hue, dotted over with a deeper 

 shade of the same colour ; the flesh is white, but not very de- 



