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INKW ENGLAND FARMER, 



Aug. 31, \S'il. 



The flesli is buttery, sarchnrine, full of agreeable connexion with the branch, is more than of a 

 and sprightly juice", and very high flavored. It j medium length. It is phiced in a large and deep 

 is decidedly a winter fruit and sometimes keeps 

 until spring, notwithstanding the Ihiukness and 

 hardness of the skin, as is generally the case with 

 late pears, it reailily contracts iha odour of the 

 place where it is kept. 



The first fruit produced by the Spoelberch tree 

 was very large, green, elongated, smooth, and had 

 a form intermediate between the Beurre gris and 

 the Bezyde Chauinontd. Its resemblance to this 

 last, induced me to name it Dezy de Sjjoelbcrch. 

 The fruit of the second crop was tolerably changed 

 in form and color, assuming the charaaer under 

 which it has been described. 



I have bestowed upon this excellcnl ])ear the 

 name of Vicomte ds Spoelberch, a member of the 

 Botanical and Agricultural Society of this city, 

 and one of the trustees of our University. 



Henri-Van-Mons. 



By J. B. Van Mons. 



Pyrus monsia (Henricus) sativa,fructa ir.aximo, prope 

 cylindrico, glabro, flavo-viridi raaculis furfuraceis dis- 

 tincto, ad solem parce rubente, acidulo-dulci, in ore lique- 

 scente, autumnoli. 



The tree of Henri-Van-Mons is, ivithout con- 

 tradiction, among a great number of varieties of 

 its species, which I possess, thatwiich in the 

 whole appearance of its form, preserts the most 

 singidar characteristics. It is very full of bran- 

 ches, which are circumscribed in their extent, and 

 shoot in all directions, without produrangconfusion 



cavity. The skin is smooth, of a yellowish gree 

 marked with reddish brown, sprinkled with red 

 dots and slightly stained with red on the side next 

 the sun. The flesh is tender, buttery, sweet, slight- 

 ly mingled with acid, which renders it very agree- 

 able. The skin becomes yellowish as it approaches 

 maturity and assumes a more brilliant red. It is 

 an e.xcellent autuumal fruit and its true pear fla- 

 vor should make it iu great demand. 



I have done homage to M. Henri Van Mons, 

 my relative and a merchant of Uruxelles, by bestow- 

 ing his name on this new pear. 



Innominee, 



By J. B. Vnn Mniu. 



Pyrus innominata, sativa, fiuctu m,iximo, pyriforntii- 



acuto, oblongo, glabriu'sculo, viridi, maturo flavesceate, 



ore liquescenle, saccharo divite, ffist.vo-autumnali. 



I describe the Innominee, from the parent tree, 

 which, since its birth, has been freely exposed and 

 left to its natural propensities. 



At first the branches were oblique, but soon, 

 without being depressed by the weig'il of the fruit, 

 they bent down as if they had been broken, and 

 assumed a horizontal direction. The distance from 

 the stock where the bend commences is the same 

 in all the branches. 



The leaf is narrow and terminates ip a point at 

 both extremities, it is pale green, aiul wrinkled in 

 grooves. The principal nerve, with its petiole of a 

 tnediuu\ length, describes a curved line. The fig- 



or shading the centre. The annual shoots are „,-e(l leaf appertained to a bud, of which no trace 



short, large, round, smooth, brownish red when 



without down, and lead bronze when covered with 



a bluish down. They are covered with numerous 



small round whitish spots, bont at the joints and 



crooked between them. There vesults from this 



an irregular zig-zag which contributes not a little, 



to give the tree the unusual aspect which has been 

 mentioned. 



I do not recollect having discovered any spines 

 upon this tree. It appertains from its manner of 

 vegetating to the sub-species which has produ- 

 ced the .Messirt Jean and the Sanguines, (the an- 

 cient and those I have recently produced). But 

 the resemblance only exists in the wood. 



The leaf of the Henri- Van-.Mons, is long, round- 

 ed towards the outer end and narrowed at the 

 other extremity, and is supported by a long and 

 stout petiole. The sides are often folded towards 

 the base : and when the centre is not arched on 



ted by him ; for being unknown, at least by this 

 name, in France, it was under that of Bezy, [aa- 

 vagi, or wild,) de Saint VaasI, that it was cultivated 

 in Austrian Hainaut, at EMghien, Mons and else- 

 where. I have no information as to the age of 

 this variety, and it is only from one of its grafts 

 that I can describe ir. This graft, from design, 

 has never been pruned, fnim liie time of its in- 

 sertion. 



The Vaet bears its wood erect, and its branches 

 are naturally disposed A quenouille,* the wood is 

 long, moderately stout .nud otu of proportion to 

 the vigor of the stalk. Upon the annual shoots 

 the bark is brownish-red and sprinkled with small 

 round dots ; upon the two years old wood, it is a 

 deep brown ;the spots are eidavged without chang- 

 ing their form. Upon more aged wood, the brown 

 changes to red, and the spots become mottled, as- 

 suming a silvery aspect. 



The leaf of the Vaet is large and nninded next 

 to the petiole, which is long and slim, and red 

 when it first appears ; it is arched on the under 

 side, thick and deeply serrated on its borders ; its 

 color is an obscure green. 



The fruit, from all its exterior characteristics, 

 seems to belong to the sub-species of Rousselets,' 

 varying, however, in color, the groimd being deep' 

 green, blotched with purple, and the stains in spots 

 of rusty-red. Its size and form are those of the 

 very welcome Colmai: The eye is only sufficient- 

 ly deep to receive the leaves of the calyx and is 

 surroimded with protuberances and wrird<les. The 

 peduncle is short for the size of the fruit, not very 

 large, ligneous, and cut, at its extremity, in the' 

 form of a cloven or deer's foot ; it is perpendicular- 

 ly inserted in the centre of a large hollow, which 

 is stirroumled by a large rounded ridgo. 



This peduncle adheres with a half solution of 

 the continuity to the ligneous fruit support, and 

 which, if it were not for the leaves that surround 

 it, iiught be taken for the prolongation of the stem 

 of the fruit. 



The fiesh is both melting and buttery, and when 

 the fruit is perfectly ripe it assumes a slight yello'vf 

 tint ; it abounds in sugar, and exhales a perfume^ 

 which cannot be compared to the aroma of any 

 other fruit. The period of its maturity is Decem- 

 ber and January ; it can he prolonged by gather- 

 ing the fruit fifteen days sooner than the usual 

 time of harvest, which, however extraordinary 

 for such a late species, it bears very well. 



After what has been said of the Vaet, it is su- 



the underside, the bonlers are fol'l'"'' "'"'ve, the | ^.^^.j^j^l,, q-(,p ^y^^ is of a clear green, spotted 

 lateral nerves are very conspicuous ; it is smooth ^^^^j marbled with pale brown, and becomes yellow- 



is to be discovered niul remains upon the 'jranch 

 from above which the fruit with its support has 

 been detached. The borders of the leaf arc 

 scarcely denticulated. The secondary nerves 'u'e 

 scarcely perceptible. 



Flower ample and the petal round, of a remark- 

 able whiteness, which is strongly relieved by the 

 deep brown of the stamens. 



The fruit is very large ; it resembles a pear 

 which I have received from France umler the 

 name of Poire de.s Jardins, which is not the Hof- 

 peer of this country, ami from the contraction of 

 the short neck, the Frederick de Wirlemherg, 

 which will soon be described. It has a decided y 

 pear form, rounded at the summit, swelled out in 

 the middle and terminated in an obtuse poiit, 

 where a jiortion of the ftesli is elevated and covers 

 partially, the peduncle, while on the opposite si le 



it is depressed ; this peduncle is long, large and j perfluous to add, that it is worthy of being favoN- 



ably received by amateurs. 



and of a deep green 



The new shoots are of a bluish gray, long, 

 contorted, and covered with a gray down. 



The flower is of a medium size. The petals 

 are sufficiently distant from each other and folded 

 towards the top, without being hollowed like a 

 spoon. The lower endsare stained with a delicate 

 rose color. 



The fruit is very large. The engraving was 

 made froin a specimen not of the largest size ; it is 

 contracted in proportion to its length and is swell- 

 ed out, about a third of its height ; but the largest 

 fruit often assumes a cylindrical form. The eye 

 is small and placed in a narrow cavity bordered 

 by small knobs and wrinkles, which seem to have 

 produced the cicatrice of an incision of the eye 

 and the border which surrounds it ; this character- 

 istic prevails in all the pears. The peduncle which 

 is larger next to the fruit than at the point of 



ish in some parts at the time the fruit is raaturtly 

 ripe. 



The flesh is delicate, melting, saccharine, and 

 improved by an agreeable perfume. Although 

 between a summer and autuum fruit, it has not the 

 least disposition to become mealy and but little to 

 grow soft, and having past the time of its maturity, 

 it dissolves into a jelly. 



Bezy-Vaet. 



By J. B. Van Mnns. 

 Pyrus Bezy — Vaastia, sativa, fructumagno, turbinato, 

 ad basim et apicem eompre^so, ventricoso, punctdlis 

 riiffiscentibus et maculis rutis abducto, sature viridi, ad 

 solera purpureo, subrugoso, spisse saccharine, sapido, 

 suaveolente, butyracuo, biumali. 



The Bezy Vaet, according to tradition and from 

 the name which it bears, was probably obtained by 

 the late abbe Saint Vaast, or had been dissemina- 



The following notice of the Beurre Spense and 

 the Serrurier-D'Automne is extracted from the 

 Annales D'Horticulture. 



' Mr Van Mons has published with engravinggj 

 in the Revue des Revues, for March, 1830, two new 

 Pears which appear to be of an excellent quality and 

 to merit a distinguished place in our gardens. Oni* 

 is called Beurre Spense, from the name of an horff 

 orable memberof the Loudon Horticultural Society 

 and the other Serrurier D^Aulomne, dedicated to llv 

 Serrurier, a member of the Institute Royal de Hdf 

 lande and author of a Diclionaire de fructilogiL 

 These two pears have melting and delicious flesHJ 

 the first ripens the last of September and the sefr 

 ond, the end of October.' 



The scions have been preserved and are at tl^l 



* A mode of pruning which gives to the tree the fom ' 

 of a disto^— commoa in Holland and France. 



