THE BEURRE' D'ANJOU PEAR. 



BEURRE' D'ANJOU. Kemick's American Orchardist, 3d Ed. 1841. 



NE PLUS MEURIS, of some French Collections. 



THE Beurre d'Anjou, though not a very new 

 variety, is of quite recent addition to American 

 collections of pears ; and it proves to be one of 

 the most beautiful as well as one of the largest 

 and most valuable sorts we now possess. It comes 

 in at a season when we have but a limited supply 

 of excellent varieties, and, from its productiveness, 

 size, beauty, and other superior qualities, must 

 become an indispensable addition to all good col- 

 lections of pears* 



The origin of the Beurre dAnjou is unknown 

 to us. In some of the French Catalogues it is stated to have origi- 

 nated in the vicinity of Angers, near Paris ; but whether this is correct 

 or not, we have no means of ascertaining, as we cannot find any notice 

 of it in any pomological work except that of Mr. Kenrick, who intro- 

 duced it to the notice of American cultivators. In the Catalogue of the 

 London Horticultural Society, 3d Ed., 1842, it is set down as a synonyme 

 of the Brown Beurre; but either the true variety could never have ex- 

 isted in the society's collection, or a great error must have been commit- 

 ted ; for the two pears are too distinct to have been considered identical. 

 It is somewhat remarkable that, in the large number of pears proved 

 in the very extensive collection in the pomological garden of Mr. Man- 

 ning, and principally described in the Magazine of Horticulture, the 

 Beurre dAnjou should not have been found among them. It first 

 fruited in the collection of Col. Wilder, of Dorchester, in 1845, and its 

 cultivation is yet mostly confined to amateur collections. 



The Beurre dAnjou is a rapid growing and' healthy tree, forming a 

 fine pyramid in five or six years. The fruit is borne on the ends of 

 the shoots, and when every branch is terminated with well grown speci- 

 mens the tree presents a highly beautiful appearance. It succeeds 

 admirably upon the quince, our tree being upwards of ten feet high, 

 though only six years planted out ; and last season it produced upwards 

 of sixty pears, some of which weighed half a pound. The fruit ripens 

 'freely and keeps well. 



TREE. Vigorous, with strong shoots, thrown out horizontally at first, 

 but afterwards turning upwards with the ends quite erect ; as it becomes 

 older, from the weight of fruit, the branches assume a diverging habit. 



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