VI. LIST OP FRUITS. 



young pear trees grafted upon quince stocks raised from 

 the pips. I got the pips from America, where quinces 

 are grown in great abundance. It would be ^difficult to 

 get the pips here, and, therefore, quince stocks must 

 generally be raised from layers or cuttings. The quince- 

 stocks are the best j because they do not force up wood 

 so big and so lofty as the pear stocks. The white-thorn 

 is very durable, and has a dwarf tendency j but it is apt 

 to send out suckers j and certainly does not produce a 

 tree so fruitful in its early stages as the quince-stock : the 

 sorts of pears are almost endless. The French authors 

 mention a hundred and fifty-two sorts. I shall insert the list 

 from the Hortus Keicensis, and then mention those sorts 

 which I think may content any man : It is : Aston- town 

 Pear, Autumn Bergamot, Gansel's Bergamot, Summer Ber- 

 gamot, Brown beurrce, Golden beurre'e, White beurre'e, Bishop s 

 Thumb, Winter Bonchretien, Williams's Bonchretien, Citron 

 des Carmes,Chaumontelle, Crasanne, Colmar, D'Auch, Jargo- 

 nelle, Lammas, Martin sec, Red Doyenn^ Summer Rousselet, 

 St. Germain, Swans Egg, Verte-longue, Pirgouleuse, Wind- 

 sor, Catillac, Dr. Uvedales St. Germain. The only pears 

 that I think necessary, are, for the summer, the^Green 

 chisel, which is the earliest of all, and if the fruit come 

 from a tree well trained and pruned, it is by no means a 

 mean pear j the Catherine pear, which is a little long 

 pear with a beautiful red cheek 3 it does not rot at the 

 heart as some pears do, and is nearly as great a bearer 

 as the Green chisel itself, and that ia a great bearer, 

 indeed. The Summer Bergamot ; and the Summer Bon- 

 chretien. The autumn pears are, the brown Beurre", the 

 Autumn Bergamot, and particularly the Gansel's Bergamot, 

 which, in my opinion, very far surpasses the Brown beur- 

 re'e. The winter pears that would satisfy me, are, the 



