PEARS. 559 



it attains maturity to bright lemon-yellow, thickly covered with pale 

 brown russety dots on the sunny side, but less so in the shade. Eye, 

 small and open, with short dry erect segments, and set in an uneven 

 and considerable depression. Stalk, an inch long, thick and fleshy, 

 rather obliquely inserted in a small compressed cavity, and sometimes 

 on the apex of the fruit. Flesh, white, tender, buttery, melting, with 

 a rich, sweet, and perfumed flavour. 



An excellent dessert pear ; ripe in November. The tree is rather 

 delicate, succeeds well on the quince, is a good bearer, and may be 

 grown either against a wall or as a standard. Mr. Blackmore says it 

 is useless at Teddington. 



It was raised by Abbe Hardenpont, of Mons, in Belgium, in 1759, at his garden, 

 which was situated at the Porte d'Havre, at Mons. The fruit described above is 

 the true Delices d'Hardenpont. It was received by Van Mons from the raiser, and 

 is entered twice in his catalogue ; first in the 1st series, No. 331, and again in the 

 2nd series, No. 714, as " Delices d'Hardenpont : par son patron." Grafts of this 

 were sent by Dr. Van Mons to Dr. Diel in 1810, and his description leaves no 

 doubt that the fruit I have identified as the true variety is the correct one. It was 

 received from Van Mons by the Horticultural Society of London. 



But there is much contention among pomologists on this subject, and conse- 

 quently much confusion of synonymes. Some make Charles d'Autriche and 

 Archdnc Charles synonymes of it. Both of these were received by Diel from 

 Van Mons, but the description of both differs so widely from Delices d'Harden- 

 pont, that I am surprised how any one could for a moment suppose them to be 

 identical. The figure of Devices d'Hardenpont given by M. Willermoz in Pomologie 

 de la France is excellent, but that given by M. Bivort is incorrect, and has no 

 resemblance to it. 



DELICES DE JODOIGNE. Fruit, medium sized, three inches 

 long, and two and a quarter wide ; pyriform, uneven in its outline, and 

 larger on one side of the axis than the other. Skin, thin, pale yellow, 

 marked with flakes and dots of pale brown russet. Eye, open, level 

 with the surface. Stalk, short, very thick and fleshy, inserted on the 

 apex of the fruit. Flesh, half-melting, sweet, sugary, and aromatic. 



Ripe in the beginning and middle of October, but an inferior pear. 



Raised by M. Simon Bouvier, of Jodoigne, in 1826. 



DELICES DE LOVENJOUL. Fruit, medium size, two inches and 

 a half long, and over two inches wide ; Doyenne-shaped. Skin, entirely 

 covered with reddish brown russet on the side next the sun, and on the 

 shaded side it is dotted all over with brown russet dots, which expose 

 the yellow ground. Eye, small and open, with short segments, and set 

 in a slight depression. Stalk, an inch long, slender and woody, in- 

 serted in a small round hole. Flesh, yellow, half-melting, juicy, rich, 

 and sugary, but somewhat gritty. 



Ripe in the end of October and beginning of November. 



This is by some pomologists made synonymous with Jules Bivort, which was 

 first made known by M. Bivort ; but Delices de Lovenjuul is iuVun Mons' catalogue 

 of 1828, 3rd series, as No. 521. 



De Maune. See Colmar. 



