PEARS. 229 



Fruit rather large, turbinate, thickest about two-thirds 

 from the stalk, diminishing a little to the oye, about three 

 inches and a quarter long, and three inches in diameter. 

 Eye connivent, moderately depressed. Stalk short and thick. 

 Skin green, nearly smooth, becoming pale yellowish green, 

 after the fruit has been gathered some, time, and is fit for ta- 

 ble. Flesh white, firm, juicy, becoming buttery and melt- 

 ing, rich and excellent. 



Ripe the middle of September. 



A very hardy tree, and a great bearer as an open standard. 



38. WILLIAMS'S BONCHRETIEN. Hort. Trans. Vol. ii. 

 p. 250. t. 16. 



Fruit pretty large, of an irregular pyramidal, and some- 

 what truncated form, from three to four inches long, and 

 from two to three inches in diameter. Eye seated on the 

 summit, and never in a hollow or cavity, as in other varieties 

 called Bonchretien. Stalk an inch long, very gross and 

 fleshy. Skin pale green, mottled all over with a mixture of 

 darker green and russet brown, becoming yellowish and 

 tinged with red on -the sunny side when fully ripe. Flesh 

 whitish, very tender and delicate, abounding with a sweet 

 and agreeably perfumed juice. 



Ripe the end of August to the middle of September. 



This Pear appears to have sprung up from seed in the 

 garden of Mr. Wheeler, a schoolmaster at Aldermaston, in 

 Berkshire, previously to 1770, as it was then a very young 

 plant. An account of it was published by the Horticultural 

 Society, as above, in 1816, at which time the garden in 

 which the tree grew was in the possession of William Con- 

 greve, Esq. 



39. WINDSOR. Of all English Gardens. 



Fruit middle-sized, oblong, obovate, not either pyrami- 

 dal or turbinate, being widest above its middle, tapering 

 to the crown, and suddenly contracted towards the stalk, 

 where it is slender ; about three inches and half long, and 

 two inches and a quarter in diameter. Eye small, with a 

 connivent calyx, prominently placed on the summit. Stalk 

 an inch long, slender, convexly inserted without any cavity. 

 Skin yellowish green, full of small green specks, becoming 

 yellow when fully ripe, and tinged with orange on the sun- 

 ny side. Flesh white, soft, with a little grit at the core, and 

 a sugary astringent juice. 



Ripe the end of August and beginning of September. 



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