PEARS. 587 



A first-rate dessert pear ; in use from December to January. 



The tree is hardy and an excellent bearer, and succeeds well as a 

 standard, except in cold and exposed situations, where it requires to be 

 grown against a south wall. It succeeds well on the quince. Mr. 

 Blackmore's experience of it is that it is "bad on a standard and 

 worse from a wall. Flat and loose-textured at its best. A vastly over- 

 rated pear in my opinion." 



I have remarked, when treating of Beurre d'Aremberg, that great confusion has 

 existed between these two varieties. Tliis was raised by Councillor Hardenpont 

 at Mons. Van Mons named it Roi de Wurtemberg. and received a handsome 

 snuff-box as an acknowledgment of the compliment from the King of Wurtem- 

 berg. 



Glou Morceau de Cambron. See Glou Morgeau. 

 Gobert. See Gilogil. 



GOLDEN BEURRE OF BILBOA (Beurre Dore de Bilbao ; Beurre 

 Gris de Bilbao ; Beurre Gris de Portugal). Fruit, medium sized, three 

 inches long, and two and a half wide ; obovate, blunt at the stalk. 

 Skin, golden yellow, dotted and lined with russet, with a russet patch 

 round the stalk. Eye, small, half open, set in a rather shallow basin. 

 Stalk, an inch long, inserted in a rather open cavity. Flesh, white, 

 buttery, and melting, and vinous. 



Ripe in the end of September and through October. It is much 

 esteemed in the United States, where it was introduced from Spain. 



GOLDEN KNAP. This is a very small roundish turbinate russety 

 pear, of no great merit. It is grown extensively in the orchards of 

 the border counties of Scotland and in the Carse of Gowrie, and being 

 a prodigious and constant bearer, is well adapted for orchard planting 

 where quantity and not quality is the object. 



Ripe in October. 



The name is a corruption of Golden Knob, the shape being that of a small knob. 



GOLDEN QUEEN. Fruit, small, two inches and three-quarters 

 long, and two inches and a half wide; obovate. Skin, clear straw-colour, 

 and strewed with a few minute dots. Eye, very small and closed, set 

 in a shallow narrow basin. Stalk, an inch long, curved, inserted with- 

 out depression. Flesh, very tender and extremely juicy, sweet and 

 highly perfumed. 



A delicious pear ; ripe in September, but speedily rots at the core. 

 It ought to be gathered before it changes colour. 



This was raised at the Royal Gardens, Frogmore, near Windsor, and was first 

 exhibited in 1872. 



GOLDEN RUSSET. Fruit, small ; obtuse obovate. Skin, of a 

 bright cinnamon russet. Eye, small, slightly open, set in a consider- 

 able depression. Stalk, half an inch long, very stout and fleshy. 



