Descriptions of Select Varieties of Pears. 159 



139. DuNMORE. Hart. Soc. Catalogue, 3d Ed., 1842. 



Three or four of the seedling pears of the late Mr. Knight 

 have attracted much attention among English cultivators, 

 and have been pronounced by their best pomologists to 

 be of the first quality, and for the climate of Great Britain, 

 superior to most of the Flemish varieties. These varieties 



Fig. 11. Dunmore. 



are the Dunmore, Monarch, Althorpe Crassane, and Eyewood. 

 All these, with several others, have been described in the 

 Transactions of the London Horticultural Society, and an 

 account of most of them copied into our pages, (vol. xiii, 

 p. 154.) At that time they had but just begun to bear fruit, 

 and no correct opinion could be formed of their merits ; but 



