48 Account of Pears formerly cultivated. 



sugary and a good share of musky perfumed flavour with it ; 

 eats a little short in the mouth and a little stony and gritty, 

 whiter than the Petit Muscat in its colour. The Core pro- 

 portionable to the size, and rather less than that of the Petit 

 Muscat, with 2 or 3 kernels, more taper than that and a little 

 lighter in colour. The Skin not thick or tough, greenish upon 

 the tree, but turns yellow with keeping, when it is fit to eat ; 

 it is clear in the grain with very little variation of colour, or 

 pouncing, or other outward mark. It came in this year 1715, 

 before the Petit Muscat was gone, but commonly held out till 

 after that was gone. It is a delicious morsel, larger, yellower, 

 as well as richer in taste and flavour than the Petit Muscat, 

 and has no fault but that of its size. 



Virgolouze. fig. 14. Had of Mr. Palmer, 19 th October, 

 1712, and eaten the 27 th of November after. A charming 

 beautiful Pear, yellow on the outside with some red, but was 

 kept too long : another gathered the same day was in rare 

 order. 



Callio Rosat, or Russelet Spicer.^. 15. A windfall 

 II th August, 1715, from a tree removed in November, 1713, 

 on a Pear Stock in the hedge to the west end of the Melon 

 ground. A good specimen. A very sorry bearer even against 

 a wall, on which account it is more proper to graft it on a 

 Quince Stock ; it will take well upon that stock. It is a 

 good tasted fruit, but being stony at the core, and so bad a 

 keeper and bearer, one need not covet many trees of it ; one 

 is enough. However, when they please to bear, the fruit is 

 pleasant to the eye, being well shaped, and of an agreeable 

 size. They will not last any time ; what we had this year, 

 1715, were all gone by 20 th August. About 10 th August, they 



