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THE PE AH. 
turbinate, angular. Skin yellowish, considerably shaded with 
crimson, thickly sprinkled with crimson dots. Stalk long. Calyx 
open ; broad, shallow, uneven basin. Flesh breaking, a little 
coarse, sweet, and aromatic ; rots at the core unless gathered 
<*arly. Last of August. 
Sucre Yert. Thomp. Brivort. 
Green Sugar. 
Fruit medium or small, oblate, inclining to turbinate. Skin 
green. Stalk medium, fleshy at its insertion in a very slight 
cavity ; basin shallow. Flesh juicy, melting, sweet, and plea- 
sant. October. 
Sugar Top. Thomp. 
July Pear. Prince’s Sugar. 
Prince’s Sugar Top. 
Fruit roundish-top-shaped. Skin smooth, yellow. Flesh 
white, somewhat juicy and breaking, sweet, but with little fla- 
vour. Last of July. 
Sucree de Hoyerswerda. Thomp. 
Sugar of Hoyersworda. 
A pleasant German pear, of peculiar flavour, good when 
ripened in the house. It bears immense crops. Fruit small, 
obovate. Skin pale yellowish-green, thickly sprinkled with 
greenish-russet dots. 
Flesh white, quite juicy, with a sweet and piquant flavour. 
It does not keep long. Last of August. 
Summer St. Germain. Thomp. 
Short’s Saint Germain. Saint Germain de Martin. 
St. Germain d’^Ite. K Dull. 
A pleasant, juicy, summer pear, of second rate flavour, bear- 
ing large crops. 
Fruit of medium size, obovate. Skin pale green all over the 
surface. Stalk an inch and a quarter long, obliquely inserted: 
Calyx large, in a basin scarcely sunken. Flesh juicy, tender 
with a very slight acid. Last of August. 
Summer Franc Beal. Thomp. Lind. P. Mag. 
Franc Real d’Ete. Diel. Gros Micet d’fe. 
Fondante. Knoop. Green Chisel? 
Green Sugar. 
Fruit of medium size, obovate, but largest in the middle, ana 
tapering each way. Skin pale yellowish-green, dotted with 
