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Gros Blanquet Rond
No 14 of L'Abbé Rozier

[sketch of pear]

This a round pear of midling size, flat
at the blossom end which is inserted in a 
deep hollow, stalk end very fleshy - Stalk
large & about an inch long - Skin yellow, flesh
coarse, breaking, & pleasant, without much 
flavor. Mr Barbarroux cultivated it as the
true Blanquet, it resembles that pear
in appearance but doubt its identity - 
ripens in August. Original tree grows
in John Hows Garden South end of High
Street Burlington.
        