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clear glossy look, firm and thick in substance, eating tough, 

 and a little bitter : the colour was stripy, of a grass green 

 and pale yellow interchangeably in the ground, pounced 

 with little small specks of a reddish sandy colour, and a few 

 black ones among them ; thus it continued several weeks ; at 

 last its green tincture began to abate and grow more soft and 

 mellow, inclining to be ruddy and take a yellow cast, but the 

 yellow part of it grew stronger, more lively, and attained to a 

 golden complexion. It grew pretty much wrinkled on the 

 outside, but that might proceed from not having hung its full 

 time upon the tree: it did (as Quintinie intimates) feel 

 moistish on the outside, but that a very little, did not cast 

 any scent, nor yield at all to the thumb. It seems to speck 

 and perish visibly on the outside by turning of a darker 

 reddish colour just within the skin, and to spread inwards 

 towards the core. 



L'Espine de Hyver, or Winter Thorn, fig. 24. Had 

 of Mr. Selwood, 18 th October, 1712, eaten 3 d December 

 after. A gritty stony Pear with a green shrivelled coat, no 

 juicy pulp nor flavour : may be a good fruit from a better 

 tree, and when ripe. 



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