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Musk or Spice (Pear) or true
Rousselet de Rheims  / A[L'Abbé Rozier Vol. 8. p. 88.
see also Churchs' <s>illegible</s> Catharine No. 91

This fruit is small, pear shaped round at the head where
the eye is pretty large and placed even with the surface.
The skin is green on the side of the Shade, some parts become
yellow as it ripens towards the Sun.  It is of a red brown
in some instances approaching to a lively red, spotted with
grey in every part. The flesh is half breaking, fine, excellent.
The juice has a peculiar flavor which procures for it the
appellation of the musk or Spice Pear by which name it is generally
known. The seeds are large and brown.  It is in maturity
the last of August and beginning of September.
The tree is vigorous putting out long shoots much like the
Early Catharine. By many persons it is therefore called the
Autumn Catharine. It does not produce fruit at an early
age, but when it bears it is extremely fruitful.

This pear was imported from France, but had previously
been cultivated here as the late Catharine.

[sketch of pear]

See No 70
91.
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