PEARS.. 211 



A selection of SO varieties^ ripening in succession 

 ibr a private garden. 



1. Green Chissel. 13. Yellow Beurree\ 



2. Early Catharine. 14. Holland Green. 



3. Early Bergamotte. 15. Crasanne. 



8. Fin or d ? Ete\ 16. Orange d'Hyver. 



9. Julienne. 17- St. Germaine. 



10. Red Bergamotte. 18. Virgouleuse. 



11. Spice. 19. Muscat Allemand. 



12. Seckle. 20. Ambrette. 



There are some kinds of table pears in the Euro- 

 pean collections, which have not yet been introduced 

 into notice among us L'Abbe' Rozier describes one 

 hundred and twenty La Quintinye eighty -six, Mil- 

 ler eighty, and Forsyth seventy-two varieties ; in my 

 own collection I have upwards of one hundred kinds, 

 from which I have made the foregoing selection of 

 those which I considered as the best, principally of 

 French origin. 



In England the pear is much cultivated for its li- 

 quor vast quantities of most exquisite perry are made 

 from pears of a character entirely unfit for eating 

 in 1805 I imported three kinds most esteemed in Here- 

 ford ; of which I have an orchard of fifty trees plan- 

 ted in 1810, uone of them have yet produced a single 



