PEARS. 273 



citron colour as it ripens, sprinkled with numerous red dots, 

 and occasionally a little tinged with red on the sunny side. 

 Flesh melting, buttery, and full of an excellent, rich, and 

 highly flavoured juice. 



Ripe in November, and will keep two months. 

 The Virgouleuse Pear ripened at Twickenham, in 1727, 

 on a south wall, September 20, O. S., or October 1, N. S.. 

 Langley. 



It will succeed on both the Pear and the Quince. 

 This is a most excellent Pear, requiring a good soil, and 

 an east or south-east wall. 



It takes its name from Virgoule, a village of that name in 

 the neighbourhood of St. Leonard, in Limousin, where it 

 was raised, and sent to Paris, by the Marquis of Cham- 

 brette. 



147. WINTER BONCHRTIEN. Langley, t. 68. fig. 3. 

 Miller, No. 73. 



Bonchretien d'Hiver. Duhamel^ No. 87. t. 45. 

 Poire d'Angoisse. Jard. Fruit, t. 42. 

 Fruit very large, of an irregular, pyramidal figure ; it is 

 very broad at the upper end, and compressed below the mid- 

 dle towards the stalk, where it is still broad, and somewhat 

 obliquely truncate ; a good-sized fruit ; is about four inches 

 long, and three fnches and a half in diameter. Eye of a 

 middling size, with a long calyx, placed in a wide and deep 

 hollow. Stalk one inch and a quarter long, a little bent, and 

 obliquely inserted in a somewhat deep obtuse-angled cavity. 

 Skin yellowish when fully matured, with a brown tinge on 

 the sunny side. Flesh very tender, and breaking. Juice 

 plentiful, very rich, saccharine, and highly perfumed. 

 In eating in January and February. 

 It succeeds on both the Pear and the Quince. 

 This is undoubtedly one of the very best winter Pears, 

 and is held, both in France and in England, in the highest 

 estimation. It requires to be planted in a good soil, and 

 against a south or south-east wall, in order to have it per- 

 fectly ripened. 



148. WINTER NELIS. Pom. Mag. t. 126. 

 Nelis d'Hiver. Of many Flemish and English Gardens, 

 Bonne de Malines. Hort. Trans. Vol. in", p. 353. 

 La Bonne Malinoise. Hort. Trans. Vol. v. p. 408, 

 t. 17., according to the Pom. Mag. 



