Cuitivation.—This interesting pear has been cultivated 
at Kew since 1875. In the spring of that year a valuable 
collection of grafts of Pyrus was presented to Kew by the 
late Prof. Decaisne. It was from one of these that the 
plant now figured was raised. It flowers freely almost 
every year early in April, but rarely produces a large crop 
of fruit. This species thrives very well in the ordinary soil 
of Kew.—W. J. Bran. 
Fig. 1, a flower from which the petals and stamens have been removed :— 
enlarged. 
