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white, and pentapetalous. The fruit is 

 globular, and of a deep green colour* 

 until it is ripe, when it changes to a 

 yellow! fh white. The end, oppofite to 

 the ftem, has a fmail corona ; within 

 the rind, is a thin apple- Lke fubftance, 

 inclofing a reddifli pleafant pulp, inter- 

 mixed with numerous imall hard feeds. 

 This fruit is the ufual fuccedaneum to 

 Apples ; and its external fubftance is 

 ufed for tarts, marmalades, &c. The 

 inner pulp affords an excellent jelly. 

 The whole of the fruit is aftringent. 

 There is another fpecies, formed like a 

 Pear, but they are lefs common. 



The Avigato Pear Tree is between 

 thirty and forty feet in height. Its trunk 

 feparates into widely diverging branches, 

 covered with large pointed leaves. The 

 flowers arife at the extremities of the 

 branches, and are hexapetalous. To 



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