ripened in the Summer and Autumn of 1823 and 1824. 397 



nearly related to the Pyrus Communis ; it has been named 

 by Mr. Lindley Pyrus Sinensis. It is very different in ap- 

 pearance from any variety of the Common Pear. The leaves 

 are almost ever-green, continuing on the tree nearly the whole 

 winter ; they are large, and shining dark green. The tree 

 vegetates very early in the spring ; when it is easily recog- 

 nized by the brown colour of its young leaves and shoots. 



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