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THE BEURRE DIEL PEAR. (From a Standard.) 



Dorothee Royale. Van Mons. Cat. p. 25. 

 Beurre Royale . . 1 



Poire de Melon . . > of various Collections. 

 Beurre de Yelle . . J 



As we consider this one of the most important 

 Pears in cultivation, we have thought it right to give 

 a figure of the fruit from a standard, in addition to 

 that from a wall, already represented at folio 19 

 of this Work ; for they are so extremely difterent in 

 appearance as to render it improbable that the 

 identity of the two would be discovered without 

 being thus pointed out. The various synonyms now 

 added above have been traced with much sagacity 

 by Mr. Thompson, from an examination of trees in 

 the Garden of the Horticultural Society, in the 

 course of the last productive Pear season. It is 

 probable that more names yet remain, for it appears 

 to be a universal practice among cultivators to have 

 each his own mode of naming every first-rate fruit — - 

 a most pernicious practice, which cannot be too 

 strongly condemned. 



To the encomiums passed in the first volume of 

 this Work upon the Beurre Diel, we can now add, 

 not only that it bears most freely as a standard, but 

 that its fruit retains its good qualities in as high a 

 degree when so produced as when grown upon a 

 wall. It succeeds well upon a Quince stock. 



