PEARS. 



107 



Ucate, and the juice is of quite an agreeable taste ; the seeds 

 are black, and the fruit ripens in November or December. 



GROSSE POIRE DE VITRIER. N. Duh. 



Great pear of Vitrier, Auth. 



Duhamel after giving the preceding description, states that 

 he believes the true Vitrier, which he found under that name in 

 many gardens, is different — 'that it is a very beautiful and very 

 large fruit, of a turbinate form, flattened at the base, and ter- 

 minating at the stem in a point moderately obtuse. This pear 

 is three inches nine lines in diameter, and four inches wanting 

 one line in height; the skin is smooth, scattered over with nu- 

 merous fawn specks of a bright red next the sun, and lemon 

 colour on the shaded side ; the flesh is white, of rather agree- 

 able taste, and partially perfumed with musk ; the fruit ripens 

 in November and December ; the tree is very vigorous, and 

 succeeds when ingrafted on the quince. 



DOUBLE FLOWERING. Pr. cat. Mil. 



Douhle-Jleur. Quin. Roz. Duh. Mil. 

 Armenie. 



Armenian, > v ] 



The Double fiower, \ ^^^^ 



This tree acquires its leading title from its flowers being 

 semi-double, they having ten to fifteen petals ; the fruit is round 

 and flattened, its diameter being thirty lines, and its height 

 but twenty-six lines ; the head is flat, and the eye is there placed 

 in a broad and regular depression ; the stem is eleven lines 

 long, and inserted within a contracted cavit}' ; the side of the 

 skin which is shaded is green, but becomes yellow as the fruit 

 ripens — the opposite side is red ; the whole fruit is besides in- 

 terspersed with some dots and small spots of a gray colour ; 

 the flesh is breaking, and good only when cooked ; the seeds 

 are dark brown, broad and flat, and the fruit ripens in Febru- 

 ary, March, and April. 



