Pip Fruits : Pears 



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bearer. The fruit should be gathered just before Michaelmas, as its long 

 slender stalk allows it to sway on the tree, and an autumn gale will give 

 the grower the unpleasant surprise of finding his Calebasse gathered for 

 him in the night, and injured also. It is not worth planting on unsuitable 

 soil. 



Beurre Capiaumont. A profuse bearer. As the tree is of upright 

 growth it should be planted at the end of rows where a^roadway is left, 

 where a drooping or spreading tree would be injured by the passing of 

 vans or trolleys. It is tit to gather at the beginning of October. 



Durondeau. A pear very much like the one just mentioned, bat 

 larger and of better quality. The tree has a similar upright growth, but 

 is not so hardy, and though a good cropper is nothing like so sure as the 

 Capiaumont. 



Fertility. This Pear is certainly rightly named. It is probably the 

 heaviest bearer among the Pears. The tree has an awkward tendency 

 to run up, and the lateral branches nearly always want propping. When 

 the crop is heavy, or the season dry, the fruit 

 runs small. The quality is poor, but the tree 

 pays to grow where Pears will grow at all, 

 because of its fertility. It is apt to canker and 

 requires the copper sulphate spray in the winter. 

 It is fit to gather at the beginning of October. 



Emile d'Heyst. This is the best -quality 

 Pear yet mentioned. It is of regular, fairly 

 upright growth; a good bearer. Wants gather- 

 ing at the beginning of October, and keeping a 

 week or two before sending to market. 



Winter Windsor. This is a Pear grown in 

 Middlesex and Essex; it is a prodigious bearer. 

 The tree is of curious habit, throwing long up- 

 , right branches which bend over when bearing a 

 crop, making the tree like a Weeping Willow. 

 The fruit, when ripe, in November, has a pretty 

 red blush and looks very attractive; but it has 

 no quality whatever, and is only fit for stewing 

 (fig. 353). 



The above are all for planting on the Pear 

 stock; for the Quince stock there is a much wider range of varieties for 

 the specialist, but only a few can yet be termed market pears. 



Clapp's Favourite. A Pear of American origin, large, well-shaped, 

 with red streaks on one side, with flavour something iike the old " Williams' 

 Bon Chretien", but less distinct; a good bearer on the Quince, but wants 

 planting with caution, the favour with which it was at first received on the 

 market seems declining. Its season is early September. 



Dr. Jules Guyot. Another Pear resembling " Williams' Bon Chretien " 

 both in appearance and flavour. It makes a regular bush on the Quince, 



Fig. 353. Pear. Windsor. (J.) 



