European and Native Pears. 87 



and I have no doubt but this variety will be extensively cultivated 

 when its good qualities are better known. 



It ripens from the latter end of October, and keeps well. 



This variety was raised in the village of Tillington, near Hereford, 

 England, from seed produced from an autumn Bergamot pear, 

 that had been impregnated with the Jargonelle. Specimens of the 

 fruit were first presented to the London Horticultural Society by T. 

 A. Knight, Esq. in 1820. 



Bezy Vaet. Hoi-t. Trans. Vol. v. p. 407. 



This excellent autumn pear came into bearing with me the last 

 season. Owing to the early hard frosts, I think they did not mature 

 sufficiently to arrive at their full flavor, though part of them were con- 

 sidered fine. Nearly all the leaves fell off before the proper time of 

 ripening, which also prevented the fruit from being fair specimens. 

 The tree is a very vigorous grower, upright branches, and produced 

 fruit the fourth year from the graft. All the pears were unconmionly 

 perfect. The tree is now full of prominent blossom buds. Fruit 

 medium size. Flesh buttery, melting, juicy and perfumed: color of 

 the skin pale green, little russeted. 



Ripens in November, and will keep several weeks. 



Raised by M. Parmentier at Engheim. 



NATIVE PEARS. 



In giving you a description of our good native pears, I cannot here 

 omit to own the very strong partiality I have in their favor. They 

 have originated in, and are inhabitants of our own gardens ; and they 

 seem doubly valuable to us from the circumstance that they have no 

 rigocs of climate to contend with, but bear our most severe cold 

 weather without the least injury. They are, also, in general, con- 

 stant bearers, and although the flavor of some of the varieties may 

 not be as rich and highly perfumed as those of Flemish origin, still, 

 they are so far superior to many foreign kinds, yet old inhabitants of 

 our gardens, that they will be in a few years, as they deserve to be, 

 generally and extensively cultivated. 



Seckle. Coxe. Pr. Pom. ManuaJ, p. 139. Pom. Mag, t. 72. 

 Hort. Trans. Vol. iii. p. 256. t. 9. 



This superior pear is still growing on the farm of the late Stephen 

 Gerard, Esq., near Philadelphia. When I visited this place, a few 

 years since, in company with Joshua Longstreth, Esq., I noticed 

 that the tree was in excellent health, although the top of it was much 

 broken by high winds. It grows in a strong rich soil, on the border 

 of a fine tract of land near the Delaware river. Probably the tree 

 is about fifty or sixty years old. It will be unnecessary to say it has 

 no superior in flavor, and very few equals. It is greatly to be re- 

 gretted that it does not belong to the large class of pears. 



