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Des Trois Tours — we ourselves having received it under these 

 and three other names during the last three years. It is sup- 

 posed to have been raised by Dr. Van Mons, and named by 

 him in honor of Dr. Augustus Frederick Adrien Diel, a Ger- 

 man pomologist, of great celebrity. 



The Beurre Diel is of a somewhat variable character, both 

 as regards form and quality, according to the soil or situation 

 in which it is placed; and, from this circumstance, has arisen 

 its many synonymes, when in its best condition being truly 

 " magnifique," as the French nurserymen have denominated 

 it. The tree is a most vigorous grower, often making annual 

 shoots an inch in diameter ; and the foliage is large, broad 

 and handsome. The wood is of an olive brown shade, sprinkled 

 with grayish specks ; the young growth, light brown and 

 slightly downy ; the flowers are also large, with strong an- 

 thers. It bears most abundantly. 



Size, large, three and a half inches long and three in diame- 

 ter : Form, obovate, slightly irregular, little contracted below 

 the middle, tapering to an obtuse point at the stem : Skifi, 

 rough, uneven, dull green, becoming bright yellow when ma- 

 ture, regularly sprinkled with russet specks, with some few 

 scattered russet and greenish brown patches : Stem, rather 

 long, about one and a half inches, stout, curved, brown, deeply 

 inserted in a contracted cavity : Eye, medium size, open, con- 

 siderably depressed, in a ridged basin ; segments of the calyx, 

 long, narrow and projecting : Flesh, yellowish white, coarse, 

 buttery, melting and juicy : Flavor rich, sugary, perfumed and 

 delicious : Core, large : Seeds, medium size, dark brown. Ripe 

 in November and December. 



The Beurre Diel succeeds admirably on the quince, and 

 the fruit is much less liable to injury from high winds, which 

 often blow off a great portion of it in consequence of its 

 size and weight. Our specimen was from a tree on the quince, 

 which had been planted out only two years. 



38. Henri Quatre. Hort. Soc. Cat. 



Jacquin, Hort. Soc. Cal. 3d. Ed. 



Henry the Fourth, Fruits and Fruit Trees, cj-c. 



Among the autumn pears, which should find a place in 

 every good collection, may be named Henry IV., {fg: 6,) 



