TAEIETIES Or THE LAST CESTTJKY. 



81 



Wilding of Chaumontelle. 



Carmelite. 



Union. 



Aurate. 



Fine Present, or St. Samson. 



Le Rousselet de Reims. 



Summer Thorn. 



Egg pear : the shape of an 



egg- 



Orange Tulip. 

 La Mansuette. 

 German Muscat. 

 Holland Bergamot. 

 Pear of Naples. 



62. Lord Martin. 72. 



63. Winter Citron, or Musk 73. 



Orange. 74. 



64. Winter Russelet. 75. 



65. Gate pear : discovered in 76. 



Poictou, where it was much 7 7. 



esteemed. 78. 



66. Bergamot Bugi, or Easter 79. 



Bergamot. 



67. Winter Bon Chretien. 80. 



68. Catillac. (Baking.) 81. 



69. La Pastourelle. 82. 



70. Double Flowering. (Baking.) 83. 



71. St. Martial, or Poire Ang6- 84. 



lique. 



The figures of this list do not agree with those quoted 

 by Dr. Lindley and others from Miller's list of later 

 date ; and, on the other hand, it includes some which 

 are not quoted from Miller. Alas ! among these once- 

 favourites, how many there are whose names are never 

 mentioned now : what do we know about these three 

 Blankets, or the Choaky pear ? but it is pleasant to hear 

 news of that date of our splendid Chaumontelle, the 

 Jargonelle that welcome, early visitor the Cassolette, 

 the Bergamots, the Mouille Bouche, the Bon Chretien, 

 the Louise Bonne, Crassane, and such-like abiding 

 favourites. The "White Doyenne, Doyenne d'Or, or St. 

 Michel, than which no pear is more delicious, appears to 

 have been well known to Miller, and popular in his day, 

 rather more than a hundred years ago ; and he names 

 the Black pear of Worcester, for cooking, and Lord 

 Cheyne's pear, or the Holland Bergamot, for eating, as 

 in use for July, if kept with care. 



Those who wish to pursue this subject further than 

 we have space or opportunity for here, may consult 

 Parkinson, who wrote a folio volume in 162*9, Miller, 

 whose works date from the middle of the last century, 

 Duhamel's Traite des arlres Fruitiers, 1768, and many 

 other excellent works, both in English and [French, from 

 that time to the present 



