THE MAGAZINE 



OF 



TICULTURE. 



OCTOBER, 1852. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Art. I. Descriptions and Engravings of Select Varieties 

 of Pears. By the Editor. 



We continue our descriptions of pears from our current 

 volume, (page 158,) and present our pomological readers 

 with engravings of three new kinds of considerable merit, 

 viz., the Beurre Giffart, Belle Julie, and Rondelet. The 

 first of these has fruited for two or three seasons in various 

 collections, and has proved a superior early pear ; the others 

 we have only seen from our own collection, but they fully 

 sustain the high reputation they have acquired abroad. 



146. Beurre' Giffart. 



The Beurre Gitfart (jig. 30) is one of the many French 

 or Belgian seedlings which have recently been produced. 

 We have already given some account of it in our Pomological 

 Gossip, and it has been rather widely disseminated for so 

 new a variety. It fills up the season of our summer pears — 

 when there is not an over-abundance of the first quality — 

 just after the Doyenne d'Ete and Madeleine are gone. It 

 fully equals in size the latter, and has nearly all the beauty 

 of the former, combining the merits of each. Like all our 

 summer varieties, it should be gathered before it becomes too 

 ripe upon the tree ; otherwise it is apt to lose its very melting 

 quality and sprightly juice. 



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