154 Mr. Knight's Seedling Pears. 



noticed here as well as in London. The tree is fine, and has 

 borne well in two seasons in which alone its fruit has existed. 



9. Croft-Castle Pear. Fruit middle-sized, oval. Eye 

 open in a shallow depression, with the segments of the calyx 

 reclining. Stalk about an inch and a half in length, rather 

 slender, and somewhat obliquely inserted. Skin pale yellow, 

 not glossy, but rough with elevated dots, and partially rus- 

 seted. Flesh whitish, a little gritty, but melting and very 

 juicy, rich and sugary. An excellent pear. Season, October. 



Note. — A variety of dwarfish growth, but very productive 

 of fruit. 



10. Eyewood Pear. In shape and size very similar to an 

 Autumn Bergamot, but of a deeper cinnamon russet color. 

 Flesh yellowish- white, melting, buttery, juicy, and very high- 

 flavored. It is doubtful whether it would be exceeded by 

 Gansel^ Bergamot in a better season for standards than 

 that of 1831, when the above description was made. Season, 

 October or November. 



Note. — In 1833, when other varieties of pears did not attain 

 their usual excellence in Herefordshire, this was found to be 

 very good. The tree is of a very free growth, and has borne 

 well during the last four years, the period commencing with 

 its existence, as regards a bearing state. The sample sent 

 was below the average size. 



11. DuNMORE Pear. Fruit about the size of a Brown 

 Beurre, obovate. Eye open, slightly depressed. Stalk about 

 an inch in length, of medium thickness, rather fleshy at its 

 junction. Skin brownish-red next the sun ; yellowish with a 

 scattering of brown where shaded. Flesh yellowish-white, 

 melting and extremely juicy, sugary and rich ; a little gritty 

 near the core, but on the whole a most excellent pear. Season, 

 end of September or beginning of October. 



Note. — This variety is as large, I think, as the Brown 

 Beurre, and I have never tasted the last mentioned sort better 

 than the Dunmore. When it has remained to ripen and grow 

 yellow upon the tree, I have thought it the most melting and 

 best pear of its early season. The birds are apt to destroy 

 most of the crop prematurely. The tree is fine and perfectly 

 healthy. Grafts of it, which were insterted into stocks two 

 years only ago, afforded an abundant blossom in the last 



