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PEAR, 



scnptions, tested by the experience of the author, are 

 here adopted relative to all the best sorts worth 

 cultivation in Britain. The sorts enumerated and 

 described here, have nearly all been propagated and 

 cultivated by the author, and who has borrowed no- 

 thing from others but what he can vouch for as being 

 accurate. They are arranged in five classes, and 

 nearly in their order of ripening. The first class are 

 summer pears ; the second early autumn ; the third 

 early winter ; the fourth late winter and spring ; and 

 the fifth baking varieties. 



Simmer Pears. 

 1. Petit Muscat P, — Ripens about the middle 

 of July. This fruit are produced in clusters; are 

 nearly round, the stalk short ; colour light green, 

 fading off to yellow when ripe. The juice is of a 

 pleasant musky flavour ; and if gathered before they 

 are quite ripe, as all this class of fruit should be, 

 their quality is improved, and very fit for the dessert. 

 The tree is of rather humble growth, but a good 

 hearer, and a profitable sort for market gardeners, 

 being always saleable so early in the season. 



All the pears of this class being proper for stan- 

 dards and espaliers, may be worked on the common 

 stock. The quince stock is most suitable for dwarfs, 

 provided the kinds wished for will take on it, and 

 provided the soil is also suitable ; otherwise the trees 

 on quince stocks will very soon fail. 



2c Citron de Carmes P.— -Ripe at the end of July, 



