100 NOTES ON SOME VARIETIES OF PEARS. 
Belmont,—Knicur. 
Fruit medium-sized, roundish-oval, with a good deal of the character 
of the Swan’s Egg, which is so prevalent in all Mr. Knight’s race of 
seedlings; even and re- 
gular in its outline. Skin 
rather rough to the feel, 
being covered with a coat 
of rough russet, which 
extends over the whole 
surface of the fruit, with 
sun the brown russet 
mottles and streaks. Eye | 
of moderate size, and | 
the fruit, Stalk an inch | 
long, rather. slender, in- 
serted in а small | 
shallow cavity, Flesh 
but juicy and melting. 
Swan's Egg flavour. 
: | 
yellowish, somewhat coarse-grained and gritty, 
Juice rich and sugary, vinous, and with a fine 
~ An excellent: pear, almost of first-rate quality, ri e in the end /of 
October and: beginni g of November, td ж, 
„д3 "аде des Сарцеіпев, Van Mons. 
Fruit above medium Size, ovato-obovate, even and regularly formed, 
ра on its : : 
shining, of а dull yellow colou Se ee smooth but not 
: г, having a greenish tinge, the whole 
Surface strewed with large flakes and freckles a. -— 
and with а considerable patch of the same towards the stalk. Stalk 
