Watercolor of a speckled yellow and red pear below a cross-section of a pear showing its core and seeds, on white.

Small watercolor of a red and yellow pear with a pear cross-section above it, on white. — Inside: four of your photos stand up below this, with your note.

No. 109 of 248 · The Natural History Series

Pear, ‘St. Germain’

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A ripe St. Germain pear, golden with a red blush, sits beneath its own cut half in Bertha Heiges's delicate watercolor. She painted it in 1901 for the US Department of Agriculture, to record a fruit grown in America. For someone who loves a garden, an orchard or a beautiful old botanical plate.

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On the back

From the US Department of Agriculture’s fruit paintings / PEAR, ‘ST. GERMAIN’ / Pyrus communis / Pears ripen best off the tree: picked hard and kept cool, they soften from the inside out. The Romans grew dozens of pears, and French gardeners bred hundreds more. / USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection, 1901 / Painted by Bertha Heiges in 1901 for the US Department of Agriculture, to record a fruit grown in America.

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