PEARS. 53 



with clown ; when old becoming light gray ; leaves large, 

 either roundish or broadly cordate, smooth ; fruit about the 

 size and figure of the Summer Bonchretien, without the pro- 

 tuberances 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 in perfection it is three inches broad and four 

 inches long ; skin when the fruit is first gathered bright green, 

 changing in a short time to a bright orange, with little trace 

 of russet ; and its dots upon fruit from standard trees are 

 usually surrounded with red ; eye close, in a deep cavity, sur- 

 rounded by knobs, ribs or broad protuberances ; stalk strong, 

 woody, one and a half inches long, inserted in a deep funnel- 

 shaped hole ; flesh clear white, a little gritty towards the core, 

 but otherwise perfectly tender and melting, juicy, with a deli- 

 cious, rich, aromatic, saccharine flavour, without any percep- 

 tible mixture of acid ; core very small, with narrow cells ; 

 seeds usually abortive." 



EASTER BEURRE. POM. MAG. PR. CAT, 



Bergamotte de la Pentecote, > f v 



Bergamot pentecote, \ of Freneh catal 8<=s. 



Beurre d'hyver de Bruxelles. Taschenbuch. 



Bezy Chaumontel tres gros. Lond. Hort. cat. 



Doyenne d'hyver, of some collections. 



Beurrt d'hyver, nouvelle espcce ? 



This fine fruit, introduced of late years to our country, is 

 thus remarked upon and described in the Pomological Maga- 

 zine : 



" Of all the very late keeping pears, this is decidedly the 

 best. It has been recently introduced into England from the 

 continent, but its origin there is not known. In many of the 

 foreign collections it is confounded with the Bergamot de 

 paques or Easter Bergamot, a good but inferior variety, from 

 which it is distinguishable, not only by its fruit, but also by 

 its wood, which is reddish yellow, not green as that of the 



