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dark brownish red next the sun. Eye : large and open, with short, stout, blunted segments, set in 
a shallow basin. Stalk : about two inches long, slender, and obliquely inserted without depression. 
Flesh : yellowish white, tender, melting, and very juicy, with a rich vinous flavour, and a slight 
musky aroma. 
This well known Pear is ripe in August. It is one of the finest and best of our early Pears. 
The tree is strong, healthy, and vigorous, with long pendent shoots. It succeeds well as a 
standard, but in northern climates requires a wall. It grows too freely for a pyramid. Its best 
place is on a wall with plenty of space to extend itself, and there is no part of the kingdom where it 
will not grow in this way in the greatest perfection. As a standard its fruit is smaller, but it 
ripens it thoroughly even in the north if the situation is sheltered. In the city of Perth it may be 
seen wherever there is a space of ground sufficient to plant it. Never did Bourgeois of Rheims 
exhibit more partiality for his favorite Rousselet , than does the citizen of Perth for his adopted 
Jargonelle. 
The wide extent on which it is cultivated is well shown by the fact that in the St. John’s 
Nurseries, at Worcester, 3,000 plants are annually produced by budding; of which 1,500 are trained 
trees for walls or espaliers, and the remainder are equally divided between pyramids and standards. 
