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31. Scotch Bergamot. — Fruit large; color yellow and red; flesh tender ani 

 juicy. 



32. MuSKED BoN'CHRETlEN, GraiioU, Cucumber, or Spinolas Pear. — Color red 

 on one side and white on the other ; pulp rather tender ; juice a good deal perfumed. 

 A great bearer, and excellent fruit. 



33. Elton. — A seedling, growing at Elton. Recommended by Mr. Knight. 

 Middle-sized fruit, oval, and rather flattened at the ends ; color red and yellowish ; 

 ripe from the end of September till the middle of October. A great bearer, and 

 forms an excellent standard tree. The fruit is always without seeds, and almost 

 always without internal cavity. If trained fo a wall it becomes very large; but is 

 then good for nothing. As a standard, it grows and bears well. The original tree 

 stands upon its own roots, in an orchard of seedling pear-trees, in the parish of Elton, 



*in Herefordshire. Mr. Knight has ascertained its age to be about 1 10 years, and 

 describes it too as still indicating youth and vigour ; and calculates that, if not destroyed 

 by accident, will live for three centuries, as he thinks it has hardly yet attained its 

 middle age. Tliispear has been recommended by the Horl. Soc. as deserving general 

 cultivation. It comes early mto fruit, and combines nearly all the fine flavor of the 

 Bergamots, with much of the melting softness of the Bcurr«'. 



34. Saffron. — Well-shaped fruit, rather large ; tree hardy, and rather a good 

 bearer. 



AUTUMN PEARS. 

 Arranged in their Order of Ripening. 



35. Cassolette, or Green il/</5cn/.— Ripens the latter end of September. Fruit 

 rather small; color greenish, with dark specks ; juice richly perfumed ; an esteemed 

 fruit Tree rather delicate. 



36. Avorat, or August Muscat. — Ripens the beginning of September. Skm 

 smooth; color wliitish yellow ; juice rich, sugary, and perfumed; and is esteemed 

 one of the best summer pears yet known. Is a great bearer. 



37. TiLLiNGTON Pear. — Originated at a village of that name, near Hereford, 

 from a seed of the autumn Bergamot, impregnated w ith the pollen of the Jargonelle. 

 It is of the shape and size of the Doyenne gris, but more perfectly rounded at the 

 head. Stalk short, with a disposition to fleshiness at its insertion. The skin is dull 

 green on the shaded side, with a dull brick-dust red where exposed : the whole a 

 good deal russeted. Flesh white, with a little grit at the core ; particularly sweet 

 and rich, though not juicy. Ripens in the middle of November, but remains a con- 

 siderable time without spoiling. 



38. Great Otho'S. — Brown Admiral, or King of Summer. — Ripens about the 

 beginning of September. Color brownish next the sun ; a middling bearer ; tree 

 nardy. 



39. Orange Mi'SK. — Ripens with the last. Skin green ; flesh melting and juicy. 



40. Poire du Poucuet.— Ripens witli the la^t. Flesh soft and tender ; juice 

 sugary. 



41. Rose, Thorny Rose. — Ripens with the last. Shape resembling the King of 

 Summer, but much larger ; color yellowish green, rather inclining to red towards the 

 sun ; juice musky. 



42. Perfumed. — Ripens with the last. Color deep red, spotted with brown; 

 flesh melting, but dry ; flavor rather perlumcd. 



43. Salviati. — Ripens about the middle of September. Color red and yellow 

 next the sun, white where shaded; flesh tender; juice sugary and perfumed. 



