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THE SUMMER FRANCREAL PEAR. 



Francreal d'ete. Diel's Pomol. vol. Hi. p. 245. Hort. Soc. 



Cat. no. 282. 



Fondante. Knoop Pomol. f. 93. tab. 3. 

 Gros Micet d'ete, of some French Gardens. 



This valuable variety is particularly useful in this 

 country, where we have nothing of high quality to 

 succeed the Jargonelle. It is destitute of the hard- 

 ness of the Bonchre'tien, and of the muskiness of 

 many French Pears of its season. 



It is a very hardy, healthy, free-growing tree, 

 and a great bearer ; ripening in the middle of Sep- 

 tember. 



There can be no doubt of its being the Fondante 

 or Franze Canneel Pear of Knoop ; but that author 

 is altogether wrong in quoting as a synonym the 

 Inconnu Cheneau, or Fondante de Brest Pear of 

 Duhamel, which is quite another kind. 



Writers are not agreed about the meaning of the 

 word Francreal; Mayer (Pom. Franc, vol.iii. p. 321, 

 no. 146) seems to think it means Royal Pear ; but 

 Diel, in his Pomology (vol. iii. p.2 45), suggests its 

 having been derived from a kind of Spanish gold 

 coin called a real, which resembles it in colour. 



WOOD greenish-yellow, brown, sprinkled with 

 a few pale-brown spots. 



