MANAGEMENT OF FRUIT TREES, &c. 



the bed fruits of the feafon * ; the flefh is melting, and full 

 of a rich juice. It is in eating about the firit of January. 



51. The Ambrette is efteemed a very good Pear ; the flefh 

 is quite melting, and full of fweet perfumed juice. It comes 

 into eating about the beginning of January. 



52. Epine d' Hy ver (the Winter Thorn Pear) has a very 

 tender buttery pulp, of an agreeable tafle, with a fweet juice 

 highly perfumed. It is in eating about the latter end of 

 December. 



53. The St. Germain Pear f is a fine fruit and keeps long ; 

 the flefli is meiting, and very full of juice, which in a dry 

 feafon, or if planted on a warm dry foil, is very fweet. This 

 is in eating from December till February. 



54. St. Auftin. This Pear is pretty full of juice, which is 

 often a little lharp ; the flefh is tender, but not buttery. It is 

 in eating in the latter end of December, and will continue 

 good two months. 



55. The Spaniih Bonchretien is a large fine Pear ; the flefli 

 is breaking, and the juice fweet. It is in eating in January. 



56. The Wilding of CafToy, called alio the Small Winter 

 Butter Pear, is a fmall fruit ; the fleih is melting, and the 

 juice very rich. It is in eating in January. This is an extra- 

 ordinary good bearer. There was a tree of this kind at 

 Campden Houfe near Kenfington, which generally produced 

 a great quantity of fruit. 



* In dry and cold feafons this Pear is very apt to crack, which greatly diminifhes its 

 value. 



f This Pear, owing to the hot and dry Summer, has come into eating fix weeks fooner 

 this feafon than I ever remember 5 and, of courfe, will be fo much fooner out than ufual. 



It is to be obferved, that, in dry feafons, fruit fhould not be fuffered to fweat fb long in 

 the heaps as directed in the Chapter On Gathering and Laying-up Fruit ; perhaps 

 a fortnight will be long enough. 



57. The 



