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THE BEURRE DIEL PEAR. 



Beurre Diel. Hort. Soc. Fruit Cat. no. 95, p. 159. 

 Diel's Butterbime. Diel's versuch einer si/stematisch. besch' 

 reib. in Deutsch. vorhand. Kernobst. vol. xix. p. 70. 



This noble Pear was raised by Dr. Van Mons 

 at Louvain, and by him named in honour of Dr. 

 Augustus Frederick Adrian Diel, one of the most 

 distinguished of the German Pomologists. Its great 

 merit, independently of its excellence, is its fertility, 

 both when trained on a wall and as a standard. In 

 the former case, it will succeed perfectly on an 

 eastern aspect. 



Its period of maturity is the end of November, 

 and it keeps well till the beginning of January. It 

 is of the first rank among dessert Pears. 



The tree is a free grower, and acquires consider- 

 able size. 



Wood long, strong, flexuose, olive-green, with 

 a few scattered oval spots of an ash colour ; at the 

 ends covered with down ; when old, becoming light 

 gray. 



Leaves large, either roundish or broadly cor- 

 date, smooth. 



Fruit about the size and figure of the Summer 

 Bonchretien, without the protuberances of that 



