
          329

29

Large Sugar (Pear)
<s>illegible</s> or Bon Chretien d'Eté Musqué
see L'Abbé Rozier No[illegible] p. 11[illegible]. 112

[sketch of pear]

This is a large pear of very irregular form,
smooth skin and when ripe of a pale green inclining
to yellow with very small dull black
spots, and frequently black clouds and large
spots scattered over the suface.  The flesh is
yellow, saccharine and waxy; of a fine odour
and very rich taste.  It is sometime called
the Jargonelle - but it appears to me superior
to the description of that pear in the
Books. It is of imported origin. I received the
same pear from France under the name of
the Muscat Robert, though evidently incorrect.
The skin frequently cracks into wide fissures.
It ripens from the middle to the end of
August. From an examination I believe this
to be the Bon Chretien d'Eté Musqué of the 
Abbe[L'Abbé] Rozier No 91. 8th vol. pp. 112. 119.

ripens latter
end of August
        