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ever, vary with the season, soil, and situation. It 

 seems to abhor a quince stock, and is wholly unfit 

 for any situation but a warm wall. 



47. Easter Bergamot P, — Begins to ripen in the 

 fruitery about the end of January, and continues good 

 for four months afterwards. The fruit are large, 

 nearly globular, but lengthened a little towards the 

 stalk, which is short and thick, strongly inserted in 

 the fruit. The eye and cavity round it small : general 

 colour, green ; skin rough, with brown tubercles, 

 becoming yellow when ripe. The pulp breaking and 

 partly melting, charged with sweet, agreeable juice. 

 The fruit, however, are only passable under the best 

 treatment : without a warm wall, a dry shallow 

 border, Bcc. the produce are only fit for the kitchen. 

 If the writer mistakes not, the tree is apt to produce 

 flower buds on the points of the summer shoots ; in 

 which case they should be laid in, rather than cut 

 off. 



There are at present several other pears of a 

 similar description to the above, but as none appear 

 to be superior, and two or more identical with it, 

 more experience is required before they can be so 

 far recommended as either substitutes, or supplanters 

 of the old sort. There is one exception however, 

 viz, Le Prince de Printems, which being recommended 

 by the late Mr. Braddick, demands on this account 

 every attention of the British cultivator. 



48. Bo?i Chretien dH Hiver P. — In use during the 

 spring months. The fruit, when well grown, are very 

 large ; pyramidal shape, though not uniformly so : 



