JANUARY. 



23 



PEARS. 



The Pears mostly growni in Scotland as standards are the Swan's Egg, 

 Mocrfowl Egg, Green Pear of the Yair, Crawford or Lammas, Bishop's 

 Thumb, Black Achan, which is an excellent Pear where no better will grow ; 

 it is dry, but of a very peculiar flavour, esteemed by some — Charnock, Green 

 Chissel, Massise Jean, John IMonteith, IMuscat Robert, Orange Bergamotte, 

 Pitfour, Pollockshaw, Seggiden. There is, however, one excellent Pear grown 

 on a wall, little known in England — Galston's IMoorfowl Egg, in use in 

 October and November. Chaptal ripens as a dwarf standard in many places 

 here, as do also Downton, Dunmore, the Hessel Pear, now extensively grown 

 in all places, JMoccas, Thomson's, Belmont, Autumn Bergamotte. 



All these Pears are good, and do well with us, both on walls and as dwarf 

 standards. Those only that are marked ^ will do as standards or espaliers 

 in the high countries. With the exception of a very few places, they all 



