xxvi. JZOSA'CEJE : p\ r nus. 



410 



762. P. c. var. Glout Morceau 



and hanging late on the tree. There is a plate of this variety in the 

 Arb. Brit., 1st edit., vol. vi. 



Napoleon. Leaves broad and shining. Blossoms large. The tree 

 vigorous, and a good bearer. The fruit excellent. 



Swan's Egg. A handsome pyramidal tree, and an excellent bearer. The 

 fruit roundish, or obovate. This is one of the commonest pear 

 trees in the market-gardens about London ; and we have introduced 

 the name here, from having ourselves observed the handsome shapes 

 taken by the trees. The fruit, however, as compared with that of 

 the above sorts, is not worth cultivating. 



T7ie Jblloimng Scotch pears are recommended by Mr. Gorrie, as 

 forms adapted for landscape scenery ; but little can be said in favour 

 of their fruit, as compared with that of the new Flemish varieties* 



The Senvie, the Golden Knap, and the Elcho take fastigiate forms ; the 

 latter more especially, Mr. Gorrie says, may be called the Lombardy 

 poplar of the pear tribe. These trees generally attain the height 

 of from 45 ft. to 50 ft. in as many years, in the Carse of Gowrie, in 

 Perthshire. 



The busked Lady and the Pow Meg take spreading orbiculate forms, such 

 as wiH assort with the A^cer Pseudo-Platanus, and may be called the 

 oaks and elms of the pear family. (See Card. Mag., vol. iv. p. 11.) 



The pear tree, in a wild state, has a pyramidal-shaped head, with thorny 

 branches, at first erect, and afterwards curved downwards and pendulous. 

 The roots are few, and descend perpendicularly, with few lateral ramifications, 

 except in shallow and rich soil. The leaves vary exceedingly in different 

 soils, and in different parts of Europe and Asia : in Britain they are generally 

 green, and slightly tomentose, and do not differ greatly in magnitude ; but in 

 the woods of Poland, and in the vast steppes of Russia, the leaves of the 

 wild pear trees are commonly white with down, and vary so exceedingly in 

 their dimensions, as to include what are called the willow-leaved, the sage- 

 leaved, the elaeagnus-leaved, and other narrow-leaved varieties, which by 



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