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seem to be in prime. It decays first at the core, and feels 

 soft outwardly. The Eye sunk a little below the head or 

 crown, pretty large, open, round, and hollow, hairy within 

 and yellow, hardly any points. The Stalk long and fleshy, 

 somewhat curved or bent, the Pear growing close about it. 

 The Skin is russety almost over the whole body, not thick, 

 bites short, and will peel when the fruit is dead ripe : it is of 

 a reddish tincture on the sunny side, which grows a little 

 brighter as the fruit comes in fit for eating, and pounced 

 thick with small whitish russet or mealy spots ; that little 

 green which is to be seen, hath a pale faint whitish cast about 

 the same time. The Pulp is of the melting kind, aboundeth 

 with juice, which is sugary, with a smack of perfume, but 

 very stony or gritty about the core, which is large, and pro- 

 duceth not above one or two kernels, which are very black 

 in colour, roundish in the head, with a little nib or point on 

 one side, long in shape, and grow taper to the end. 



Vert Longe. Jig. 16. Gathered about the middle of Octo- 

 ber, 1715, from one of Father's Fan Pears, on a Quince-stock, 

 aspected east and west, next to the north side of the Apple- 

 hedge in the kitchen ground. Eaten on the 11 th of November 

 after, when it w as perished from the bottom of the core down 

 to the stalk ; the rest of it eat well. Mr. Duneau told me 

 that one year he had eaten a Pear of this sort good at the 

 beginning of March, which was gathered from a tree removed 

 the winter before was twelve months ; and we had one from 

 him in 1716, gathered the 20 th of September, from a dwarf on 

 a Quince Stock in rare order, notwithstanding the cold dry 

 summer, and wet autumn of that year, prevented them from 

 attaining their due flavour. 



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