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the Althorp Crasanne is to my taste the best ; and its rose-water 

 flavour will please where musk offends." 



" The original tree of this variety, though it has been much 

 pruned for grafts, has borne well in all the last six years, and I believe 

 it to be greatly more hardy than any of the Belgic varieties, and not 

 less hardy than the Swan's Egg. I have reason to believe that the 

 sample sent and delineated was not a favourable one ; for owing to 

 the excessive wetness and coldness of the autumn, neither the 

 Brown Beurre, the Marie Louise, the Forelle, nor Glout Morceau 

 grown in my garden here were tolerable. I planted standard trees 

 of the three above-mentioned Belgic varieties and of the Napoleon 

 and Passe Colmar, in the situation where this Pear acquired its 

 highest state of perfection, but none of them succeeded at all. 

 Three of the largest of the Althorp Crasanne Pears, which grew 

 upon a wall in my garden here last season, exceeded the plate by 

 two and a half lines in width." 



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