CHAPTER XXXVI. 



THE HISTORIES OF SOME OF OUR WELL-KNOWN PEARS. 



Compiled from various sources. 



[b, blossom early, mid-season or late, taken from " Order of Flowering of Pears " at Wisley by F. 

 Chittenden,' Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, Vol. 39 (1913), pp. 366-372. f, the 

 month when the pear is ripe.] 



Conference, raised by Messrs. Thomas 

 Rivers and Sons, of Sawbridgeworth, 

 Herts., introduced about 1894. somewhat 

 self-fertile, said not to be attacked by pear 

 midge. 6, early ;/, Oct. -Nov. 



Doctor Jules Guyot, raised by Mr. 

 Ernest Ballet, of Froyes, France, in 1870, 

 occasionally self-fertile, h, late; /, early 

 Sept. 



Fertility, raised by Mr. Rivers from 

 Beurre Goub.iult, in 1875, said to bo ono 

 of the most profitable market pears that 

 can be grown. 6, late : /, Oct." 



Duronde.4U, raised in 1811, the original 

 tree still existed in 1884, in the garden of 

 the late M. Durondeau, at the village of 

 Tongre-Notre-Dame, near Ath, in Bel- 

 gium. Self-fertile, h, mid. ; /, Oct.-Nov. 



Clapp's F.^vourite, raised by Mr. Thad- 

 deus Clapp, of Dorchester, Massachusetts. 

 U.S.A. Self-sterile. b, mid.; /, Aug.- 

 Sept. 



Marguerite Marillat, raised by M. 

 Marillat, at Villeurbaume, near Lyons, 

 France, about 1874. h, mid. ; /, Sept. 



Grosse Calebasse, a Belgium variety 

 raised bv Van Mons in 1820. h, mid. ; 

 /, Oct. 



Hessle, found at Hessle, in Yorkshire. 

 Hardy. Self-fertile, /y, late ;/, Oct. 



The above are recommended as some of 

 the most reliable for market. 



Autumn Bergamot is thought by one 

 author to have been in England ever since 

 the time that Julius Caesar conquered it, 

 and possibly was the Assyrian Pear of 

 Virgil. Dr. Hogg, however, doubts this, 

 as it is not mentioned as being cultivated 

 in the London nurseries in 1688. It is, 

 however, a good old dessert pear. /, Oct. 



Beurre Bosc, considered to have been 

 found in a wood near Apremont, France, 

 as a wildling by Van Mons, who dedicated 

 it to M. Bosc, the eminent Director of the 

 Jardin des Plantes, at Paris, about 1835. 

 Self-fertile in America, b, late; /, Oct.- 

 Nov. 



Beurre Capiaumont, raised from seed 

 by M. Capiaumont, a druggist, of Mons, 

 in Belgium, in 1787. b, late; /, Oct. 



Beurre Clairgeau, raised by a gardener 

 named Clairgeau, of Nantes, previous to 

 1848, distributed by M. de Jonghe, of 

 Brussels. /;, mid. ; /, Nov. 



Beurre d'Amanlis, raised at Amanlis, 

 near Rennes, in Brittany, about 1805. 

 b, early. 



Beurre Diel, discovered by M. Meuris, 

 gardener to Dr. Van Mons, on a farm near 

 Vilvorde, Belgium, about 1810. Van Mons 

 dedicated it to his friend. Dr. Diel, the 

 famous pomologist, of Dietz, in the Duchy 

 of Nassau. Self-fertile in America. b, 

 early; /, Oct.-Nov. 



Beurre Hardy, raised by M. Bonnet, of 

 Boulogne, the friend of Van Mons, first 

 distributed by M. Jamin, of Bourg-la- 

 Reine, near Paris, who dedicated it to the 

 late M. Hardy, director of gardens of the 

 Luxembourg, Paris, b, early; /, Oct. 



Beurre Superfin, raised at Angers by 

 M. Goubault. in 1837. It first bore fruit 

 in 1844. b, early; /, Oct.-Nov. 



Black Pear of Worcester or Verulam. 

 a very old variety, figuring in the arms of 

 the City of Worcester, it is said that the 

 Worcestershire bowmen wore this badge 

 at the Battle of Agincourt, in 1445. h, 

 early; /, Jan. -March. 



Catillac, a variety of great antiquity, 

 known before 1665, probably named after 



