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THE EASTER BEURREE PEAR. 



Bergamotte de la Pentecote. Noisette, Manuel, vol. ii. 



p. 537. Hort. Soc. Cat. 73. 

 Beurree d' hiver de Bruxelles. Hort. Cat. 103. Taschen- 



buch,p. 420. 

 Bezy Chaumontel tres gros. Hort. Cat. 183. 

 Doyenne d'hiver, of some Collections. 



Of all the very late-keeping Pears, this is de- 

 cidedly the best. It has been recently introduced 

 into England from the Continent, but its origin 

 there is not known. In many of the foreign collec- 

 tions it is confounded with the Bergamotte de 

 Paques, or Easter Bergamot, — a good, but inferior 

 variety ; from which it is distinguishable, not only 

 by its fruit, but also by its wood, which is reddish 

 yellow, not green as that of the Easter Bergamot. 



The Beurree d'hiver de Bruxelles, a kind only 

 described in the Taschenbuch, has proved in the 

 Garden of the Horticultural Society to be this ; as 

 has also a variety received some years since from 

 M. Stoffels, of Mechlin, under the name of Bezy 

 Chaumontel tr^s gros. It is probable, from this 

 latter circumstance, that the origin of this kind was 

 Flanders. 



The Pear of this name described in the Horti- 

 cultural Transactions, vol. v. in the Appendix, by 

 M. Parmentier, is not here cited as a synonym. 



