PEARS. 657 



shallow basin. Stalk, very stout, thick, and fleshy, an inch long, 

 inserted in a round cavity. Flesh, white, tender, juicy, sweet, and 

 richly flavoured. 



An excellent pear ; ripe in beginning and middle of October, and 

 soon rots at the core. It ought to be gathered early. 



De Trois Tours. See Beurre Diel. 

 Trompe Valet. See Ambrette d'Hiver. 

 Trout. See Forelle. 

 Truite. See Forelle. 



TYSON. Fruit, below medium size ; obovate, even in its outline. 

 Skin, yellowish green, covered with brown russet on the shaded side, 

 and with a dull, brownish red cheek, covered with large russet dots on 

 the side next the sun. Eye, open. Stalk, an inch long, woody, inserted 

 without depression. Flesh, yellowish white, coarse-grained, half- 

 buttery, juicy, and sweet. 



An indifferent American pear ; ripe early in September. 



It was raised near Philadelphia in 1794, and the Fruit Committee of the Royal 

 Horticultural Society awarded it a first-class certiticate in 1881. 



Union. See Uvedale's St. Germain. 



URBANISTE (Beurre Drapiez; Heurre Gens; Beurre Picquery; 

 Louis Dupont ; Louise d 1 Orleans; Picquery; St. Marc; Virgalieu 

 *}[iiM]UL'e}. Fruit, medium sized; obovate or oblong-obovate. Skin, 

 smooth and thin, pale yellow, covered with grey dots and slight 

 markings of russet, and mottled with reddish brown. Eye, small and 

 closed, set in a deep narrow basin. Stalk, an inch long, inserted in a 

 wide and rather deep cavity. Flesh, white, very tender, melting, and 

 juicy, rich, sugary, and slightly perfumed. 



A delicious pear ; ripe in October. The tree is hardy and an excel- 

 lent bearer, forming a handsome pyramid either on the pear or the 

 quince. Mr. E. D. Blackmore says, " it is a shy bearer at Teddington, 

 and the fruit is too aromatic. It forms a perfect pyramid without the 

 aid of the kuife." Mr. Luckhurst says that on the Weald of Sussex the 

 fruit is large, handsome, and of delicious flavour. 



This excellent pear was raised in the garden of a nunnery, at Malines, belonging 

 to the Urbanistes. It has been in existence prior to 1786. 



UVEDALE'S ST. GERMAIN (Abbe Mongein; Angora; Audusson; 

 Beaute de Terwueren ; Belle Angevine; Belle de Jersey ; Berthebirne; 

 Bolivar; Chambers' s Large ; Comtesse de Terwueren ; Dr. U dale's War- 

 den ; Duchesse de Berri d'Hiver; German Baker; Gros Fin Or 

 d'Hiver ; Grosse de Bruxelles ; Lent St. Germain; Pickering Pear; 

 Pickering's Warden; Piper; Pioyah d* d ngleterre ; Union). Fruit, very 

 large, sometimes weighing upwards of 3 Ibs., of a long pyriform or 

 pyramidal shape, tapering gradually towards the stalk and obtusely 



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