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PEARS. 



spiral protuberance ; the skin is light green, interspersed with 

 red spots, and becomes yellow at maturity, when the sunny 

 side also acquires a red tint ; the flesh is somewhat firm, mode- 

 rately melting, and of a musky and agreeable flavour ; the 

 seeds are broad, short, and very often abortive, and the fruit 

 ripens in November and December ; the tree succeeds better 

 on the pear than on the quince. 



De la Quintinye and Evelyn mention a pear then cultivated, 

 which bore the title of Pastourelle, Musette d'automne, or 

 Bagpipe of autumn, from which circumstance it would appear 

 that this fruit was known to the gardens of that day. 



ST. AUGUSTIN^ Pk. cat. Evel. 



Saint Augustin, Quin. Roz. Duh. 

 St. Austin. Mil. For. 

 Poire de Pise, 



This pear is thirty lines in height and twenty-two in diame- 

 ter ; it is swollen about the middle and diminishes in size to- 

 wards the head, where the eye is placed even with the fruit — 

 its size is still smaller at the other extremity, which terminates 

 in an obtuse point, and in which the stem of an inch in length 

 is inserted among some protuberances without any appa- 

 rent depression ; the skin, which is at first green, becomes a 

 light yellow at the time of ripening, the side exposed to the 

 sun's rays is faintly tinged with red, and the whole surface is 

 more or less scattered over with brown specks ; the flesh is 

 hard and of a musky flavour ; the seeds are black, oblong, 

 and quite perfect, and the fruit ripens in December and Janu- 

 ary ; the tree may be ingrafted either upon the pear or the 

 quince. 



CHAMP.RICHE D'lTALlE. Pe. cat. Roz. Duh. 



Riche d'ltalie. \ Italian rich field. Auth. 



This fruit is three inches and a half in height and two inches 

 seven lines in diameter at the most swollen point, which is about 



