This section is from the book "The Gardener's Monthly And Horticulturist V28", by Thomas Meehan. See also: Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long.
An English grower of a hundred kinds, has been keeping careful record of exact ripenings, and of those well-known in our country, the Giffard was the earliest and Olivier des Sevres the latest. They run in order as follows: Giffard, S. du Congress, Bartlett, d'Amaulis, Flemish Beauty, St. Michel Archange, Superfin, Fondante d'Automne, Duch-esse, Louise Bonne, Seckel, Urbaniste, Bose, Dicl, du Cornice, Winter Nelis, Glout Morceau, Josephine de Malines, d'Espercu, Easter Beurre, and Olivier des Sevres.
 
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