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PEARS. 



DOUBLE FLOWERING, with striped fruit. Pr. oat. 



Double jleiir panacMe. Roz. N. Duh. 



This is a subvariety of the preceding, which is distinguished 

 by the colour of its skin, which is striped with green and yel- 

 low, marked with large red dots on the side next the sun, and 

 speckled with points and small spots of a gray hue ; the tree 

 may be ingrafted both on the pear and the quince. 



PRIEST'S-PEAR. Auth. 



Poire de Pretre. Roz. Duh. 



This pear is twenty-seven lines in height and twenty-eight 

 in diameter, its form being nearly globular ; the eye is inserted 

 within a broad and shallow depression, and the stem, which is 

 about nine lines in length, is implanted in a more marked ca- 

 vity ; the skin is ash-gray, scattered over with small light gray 

 dots ; the flesh is while, half-breaking, with a slightly acid 

 flavour, and rather pleasant ; it is subject to be gritty near the 

 seeds, which are very dark brown, well matured, somewhat ob- 

 long, and contained in broad cells ; the fruit ripens in the 

 month of February. 



TONNEAU. Pr. cat. Roz. Duh. 



This pear is of very fine form and very large size ; it is four 

 inches three to six lines in length, and two inches nine lines to 

 three inches in its greatest diameter ; the stem is twelve to 

 thirteen lines in length and inserted within a cavity surrounded 

 by some protuberances ; the skin is at first light green, scat- 

 tered over with numerous small specks of deeper green, and 

 becomes yellow at the maturity of the fruit — the side exposed 

 to the sun acquires a greater or less degree of red ; the flesh 

 is firm, with a partial acidity ; the fruit ripens in October and 

 November^ and often keeps until in February and March ; it 



