
          397

97

Verte longue or Mouille Bouche
Long Green.  (vid [illegible] St Germaine No 123)

[sketch of pear]

The Verte longue or Long Green is rather less than
the middle size of pears.  The skin is always
green when ripe and never partakes in any degree
of red. The flesh is singularly melting and juicy
and possesses a species of musky or spicy taste
that is universally admired. It is however
in taste very similar and hardly to be distinguised
from the Verte longue panacheé or
Culottes de Suisse.  It ripens in the latter part
of September and beginning of October.
        