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soon die off. The fruit remain about a month in 

 season : but they require to be laid very thin on the 

 shelves of the fruit room. 



A Scotch pear, called the muir-fowl egg, has been 

 confounded with this, but they are very different. 



16. Bergarnot de Suisse P, — Ripens end of Sep- 

 tember. The fruit are full middle size, somewhat 

 rounder than the last, and more contracted at the eye, 

 which is small and hollow. The skin rather thick, 

 green striped with faint red, but yellow when ripe. 

 The pulp is melting, juicy, but not high flavoured. 

 The tree forms an upright standard of the first class, 

 and is an excellent bearer. It takes on the quince, 

 but does best on the free stock. 



17. Swanks Egg P. — Ripe end of September. 

 The fruit not quite the middle size, oval, thickish 

 near the stalk, which is short and slender ; eye small 

 and prominent; colour, a russet green ; skin, rather 

 thick ; pulp, between melting and breaking, full of 

 sweet high-flavoured juice. The tree forms a fine 

 conical-headed tree of the first class, almost always 

 healthy, and in favourable seasons a good bearer. 

 It does not succeed on the quince, but on any free 

 stock. Stocks raised from swan's egg seeds are 

 very suitable for many sorts of pears. 



18. La Doyenne P. — Is the Dean's pear ; but 

 better known by the name of the white beurre, and 

 which is usually ripe about the end of September. 

 The fruit are large, enlarged towards the eye, and 

 tapering bluntly to the stalk, which is rather long 

 and thick. Colour darkish white, and slightly brown 



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