NEW PEARS. CLASS II. WINTER. 157 



ish pear as the very best of all known, " the prince of 

 pears." One of the greatest bearers, coming early into 

 bearing, and keeping well. It has been confounded with 

 the Gloux Morceau, another fine pear, but larger. Mr. 

 Knight sent the variety, in 1822, to the Hon. John Lowell, 

 and it has been by him liberally disseminated. It was 

 raised by the Abbe Deschamps, in the garden of the Hos- 

 pice des Orphelines at Enghein. Deschamps at first called 

 it Beurre des Orphelines, and M. Van Mons soon after 

 named it Beurre d'Hardenpent, and, finally, Beurre 

 dAremberg. The Pomological Magazine thus describes 

 the tree and its fruit: Wood deep yellowish brown, 

 sprinkled with gray spots; leaves middle-sized, ovate ob- 

 long, of a rich dark green color. The fruit is large, tur- 

 binate ; the skin of a delicate pale green, dotted with 

 russet, which becomes a deeper yellow at maturity ; the 

 flesh whitish, fine, very juicy, perfectly melting, without 

 any grittiness, and of a very extraordinarily rich, sweet, 

 high-flavored quality. It will keep till March, and is truly 

 characterized, in the Horticultural Transactions, as de- 

 serving to be placed at the head of all pears in cultivation. 

 It is a great bearer, either on a quince, or as a standard. 



151. BEURRE BRONZE. 



A new fruit, under medium size ; ovate form ; of a dull 

 bronze color ; dull red next the sun ; melting and excel- 

 lent. The tree bears well. The fruit has been produced by 

 Mr. Lowell and Mr. Manning is highly deserving of 

 cultivation. It keeps into winter. 



152. *BEURRE DIEL. Pom. Mag. 



DOROTHEE ROY ALE of Van .Mons, according to Lindley. 



BEURRE D'YELLE. Lind. POIRE DE MF.I.OM. Ib. 



BKI-RRE ROYALE. Pom. May. DIEL'S BUTTERBIRNE 



GROS DII.LEX, COLMAR SOUVERAIN. 



SYLVASCHE VERTE D'HIVER of Mr. Knight. 

 This noble pear was raised by Van Mons, and so named 

 in honor of Dr. Augustus Frederick Adrian Diel. Its 

 great merit, independent of its excellence, is its fertility. 

 It is of the first rank among dessert pears. The tree is of 

 vigorous growth. The fruit, when in perfection, is four 

 inches long, and three inches broad : it is much swollen a 

 little above the middle, going off to the eye either abruptly 

 or gradually, and tapering straight to the stalk, without any 

 contraction of the figure, which is much like the Bon Chre- 

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