426 THE PEAR. 



vators. It bears well here, but is rather variable in quality. 

 In good seasons, if packed away in boxes and ripened off in a 

 warm room, it is a delicious, melting, buttery fruit. The tree 

 grows upright, and thriftily, with reddish yellow shoots. It 

 requires a warm exposure and a rich soil, to give fine fruit as 

 an open standard tree. 



Fruit large, roundish-obovate, often rather square in figure. 

 Skin yellowish-green, sprinkled with many russetty dots, and 

 some russet, which give it a brownish cheek in some specimens. 

 Stalk rather short, stout, planted in an abruptly sunken, obtuse 

 cavity. Calyx small, closed, but little sunk among the plaited 

 folds of the angular basin. Flesh white, fine grained, very 

 buttery, melting, and juicy, with a sweet and rich flavour. 



188. BEURRE GUIS D'HIVER NOUVEAU. Thomp. 



A new variety, which comes to us from France, with a high 

 reputation, as one of the best of all late pears. It is just in- 

 troduced into this country. 



Fruit large, almost round. Skin rather smooth, entirely rus- 

 seted and having a slight red tinge on the sunny side. Stalk 

 very thick and short, inserted in a slight cavity. Calyx very 

 small, basin slightly sunken. Flesh white, very melting and 

 fine grained, with an abundant, sugary, slightly perfumed 

 juice, rather richer, but somewhat resembling a fine Brown 

 JBeurrfe. February. 



180. BEURRE, MOLLETT'S GUERNSEY. Thomp.* 

 Mollet's Guernsey Chaumontelle. Ken. 



Mollett's Guernsey Beurre is a new English variety, raised 

 by Charles Mollet, Esq., of the Island of Guernsey ; it has the 

 reputation of a fruit of the highest quality, " very melting and 

 buttery, with a very rich Chaumontel flavour." Its adaptation 

 to our climate remains yet to be proved. 



Fruit of medium size, oval-pyriform there being often a 

 remarkable extension, or prolonged neck of the fruit where it 

 unites with the stalk. Skin rather uneven, yellow and yel- 

 lowish-green, nearly covered on one side with dark cinnamon 

 brown russet, in stripes and tracings. Stalk an inch long, 

 pretty stout, and planted in the fleshy extended neck of the 

 fruit. Calyx large, with widely expanded divisions, and 

 placed in a shallow basin. Flesh yellowish, exceedingly melt- 

 ing and buttery, with a rich vinous flavour. December. 



* In Oardener's Ckronicle, 1842, p. 37 and 85. 



