PEARS. 251 



This succeeds on both the Pear and the Quince. 



93. MESSIRE JEAN. Miller, No. 37. 

 Messire Jean. Duhamel, 55. t. 26. 

 Messire Jean dore. Ib. 



Chaulis. Jard. Fruit, t. 34. 



Fruit middle-sized, flatly turbinate, but somewhat nar- 

 rowed at each extremity, about two inches and a half deep, 

 and two inches and three quarters in diameter. Eye small, 

 open, with an erect calyx, placed in a shallow plaited basin. 



Stalk an inch long, bent, inserted in a somewhat funnel- 

 shaped cavity. Skin rather rough, yellow, covered almost 

 wholly with a fine, thin, brown russet. Flesh white, crisp, 

 breaking, and full of a rich saccharine juice. 



Ripe the beginning of October, and will keep a month. 



This succeeds on both the Pear and the Quince. 



The Messire Jean is a very excellent autumn Pear, and 

 deserves to be generally cultivated. There have been other 

 names given to it, such as Gray, Yellow, and White ; they 

 are all the same sort, and these colours arise, as was said of 

 the Brown Beurre', from the different soils, situations, and 

 stocks on which they are grafted, and also from the different 

 ages of the trees themselves. 



94. NAPOLEON. Hort. Trans. Vol. ii. p. 104. and Vol. 

 iv. p. 215. Pom. Mag. t. 75. 



Medaille. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 401. according to the 

 Pom. Mag. 



Fruit large, in form of a Colmar, angular about the eye, 

 a good deal contracted in the middle, about three inches and 

 three quarters long, and three inches in diameter. Eye 

 small, with a connivent calyx, a little depressed. Stalk half 

 an inch long, thick, straight ; in some specimens diagonally 

 inserted under a large, elongated, curved lip. Skin smooth, 

 bright green ; in which state it remains for some time after 

 the fruit is gathered ; it finally changes to a pale green, 

 when the flesh becomes very melting, with a most unusual 

 abundance of rich agreeable juice. 



Ripe the middle of November, and remains in perfection 

 several days. 



This succeds equally well upon the Pear and the Quince- 



The Napoleon Pear is an excellent variety, raised by Dr^ 

 Van Mons, atLouvain, and thence sent to England in 1816.* 

 It is a profuse bearer upon an east or west wall ; it also suc- 

 ceeds as an open dwarf grafted upon the Quince, and as a 

 common standard. 



