MANAGEMENT OF FRUIT TREES, &c. 9l 



Hanging Leaf; this is its name in Clydefdale ; good and 

 beautiful ; almoft round ; its colour red and yellow : a de- 

 licious fweetnefs is found in its tafte. 



Scots Bergamot, a large good Pear, of a yellow and red co- 

 lour; its fleili tender and juicy. 



Longueville, very good, but a precarious bearer ; fuppofed 

 French, but not in their Catalogues by that name. 



Mufked Boncretien, Gratioli, Cucumber, or Spinola's Pear ; 

 a very good Pear, if grafted on a free (lock ; its pulp is fome- 

 what between fhort and tender, with a great deal of perfumed 

 juice ; its colour red on one fide, and white on the other. 



Saffron Pear; a pretty large well-fhaped Pear, fit for an 

 orchard. 



AUTUMN PEARS. 



Keather, a Clydefdale Pear, of middling fize, and oblong 

 fhape, its juice agreeable. 



French Carnock ; tolerably good. 



Elfhin Haft, or Good-Man Pear ; a long Pear, flat towards 

 the eye ; its colour green and yellow ; its flefh hard, dry, and 

 fweet. 



Drummond, or Late Scotch Carnock ; very good, if eaten 

 before it grows mealy ; its colour a bright red and yellow. 



Vicar, an oblong Pear, its colour yellow, red and ftriped, 

 tender, fweet, and mufked, but dry. 



Royal Orange Bergamot ; this differs from the Orange 

 Bergamot in being yellower, and fometimes having a faint 

 red on one fide. 



Green Pear of Yair ; fweet, juicy, and melting ; of a 

 moderate fize ; takes its name from Yair, on Tweed-fide, 

 where it was fir ft difcovered. 



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