European and Native Pears. 83 



Hardenpont de Printemps of Mr. Knight's present. 

 Beurue Range. Hort. 2'rans. Vol. v. p. 130. Pom. Mag. t. 88. 



The trees in my garden have not shown even blossoms, ahhough 

 the scions were put in good stocks eight years since. For the few 

 first years after grafting, the wood got winter killed more or less ; 

 but the last two, the branches have stood the cold exceedingly well. 

 I saw last summer, at the garden of William Swift, Esq. New Bed- 

 ford, a very healthy tree full of fine fruit, some of which he has sent 

 to me, to be presented to the Massachusetts Horticultural Society 

 when in a fit state for eating. 



In eating from January till March or April. 



Raised by the late Counsellor Hardenpont at Mons ; the fruit first 

 exhibited at the London Horticultural Society in 1820. 

 Beukre Diel. Pom. Mag. t. 19. and t. 131. 



This most noble pear may be placed among the very best, if not 

 at the head of our late varieties. My tree, with only five scions 

 on it, produced twelve pears the fourth year after grafting (1833) ; 

 eight of those averaged twelve and a half ounces each. After keep- 

 ing them in the house a short time, they matured — without shrivel- 

 ling in the least — and turned of a deep yellow or rather orange color. 

 Plesh buttery, melting, full of juice, flavor aromatic and deliciously 

 excellent, between the Brown Beurre and Crasanne, if I may be al- 

 lowed the comparison ; it has none of the acid of the former, and is 

 free from the astringency of the latter. Last year the same tree pro- 

 duced eighteen pears ; but the season being short and cold, with early 

 frosts and high winds, they were all blown off before they arrived at 

 maturity. They consequently shrivelled and decayed. The tree is 

 now full of prominent blossom buds. It is a free-growing variety, 

 and not a single shoot has been winter killed or blighted. My pears 

 did not partake of the form of the first figure in the Pomological 

 Magazine, (\vhich was taken from a fruit ripened on a wall,) but all 

 were like the second, from a standard tree. In proof of the unfavor- 

 ableness of the last season towards ripening our fruits, I would mention, 

 that several vines of the Isabella grape, which I have ])laced in dif- 

 ferent situations and aspects, did not, with but one exception, ripen 

 or even color their fruit. This vine, growing under a south wall in 

 a very sheltered place, ripened a few bunches. The others were 

 unfit for the table. 



It is in eating from November till January. 



Raised by Dr. Van Mons of Louraine, and named in honor of Dr. 

 Augustus Frederick Adrian Diel, one of the most distinguished Ger- 

 man pomologists. 



Capiaumoivt. Hort. Trans. Vol. v. p. 406. Pom. Mag. t. 59. 



This beautiful and fine pear has been in bearing, in my garden, 

 for the last three years. The tree is a free grower, comes into bear- 

 ing very early from the time of grafting ; the third year my scions 



