262 fEARS. 



Chretien, without the protuberances of that variety : it is 

 much swollen a little above the middle, going off to the eye 

 either abruptly or gradually, and tapering straight to the stalk, 

 without any contraction of figure ; when fully grown, it is 

 four inches and a half long, and three inches and a half in 

 diameter. Eye close, in a deep hollow, surrounded by 

 knobs, ribs, or broad protuberances. Stalk one inch and a 

 half long, strong, bent, woody, inserted in a deep, irregularly 

 and obtusely angled cavity. Skin bright green when first 

 gathered, changing in a short time to a bright orange, with a 

 little trace of russet. Flesh clear white, a little gritty to- 

 wards the core, but otherwise perfectly tender and melting, 

 juicy, with a delicious, rich, aromatic, saccharine flavour. 



In eating from November till January. 



It succeeds on both the Pear and the Quince. 



The above description is taken from a very fine fmit pro- 

 duced against a wall, and figured in the 5th No. of the Pom. 

 Mag. No. 19. As, however, it varies considerably from 

 this, when grown upon an open standard, another figure of 

 it has been pubUshed in the same work. No. 131., which 

 exhibits it in its more general character, and fully corresponds 

 with the description I had written of the Dorothee Royale, 

 in December, 1829, from a fruit grown in the Horticultural 

 Garden at Chiswick ; viz. 



Fruit pretty large, oblong, somewhat narrowed towards 

 the stalk, and a little angular on the sides, in the manner of 

 a Chaumontelle ; about three inches and a half long, and 

 three inches in diameter. Eye narrow, open, with a cori- 

 aceous calyx, placed in a shallow uneven basin. Stalk an 

 inch long, stout, inserted in a narrow cavity. Skin dull le- 

 mon colour, covered with numerous gray specks, and mar- 

 bled with various ramifications of gray russet. Flesh yel- 

 lowish white, melting, very buttery. Juice plentiful, very 

 saccharine, and of a very high flavour. 



This noble Pear was raised by Dr. Van Mons at Lou- 

 vaine, and by him named in honour of Dr. Augustus Frede- 

 rick Adrian Diel, one of the most distinguished of the Ger- 

 man pomologists. Its great merit, independent of its excel- 

 lence, is its fertiUty, both when trained against a wall and as 

 a standard. In the former case it succeeds perfectly on an 

 eastern aspect ; in the latter, its fruit retains its good quali- 

 ties in as high a degree as when grown upon a wall. 



121. Beurre Range. Hort. Trans. Vol. v. p. 130. 

 t. 2, f, 4. Pom, Mag. i, 88. 



