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21. Urbaniste. Hort Soc. Cat.^ 1st 2d and 3d Ed. 



Beurr6 de Roi (of some.) 



The first introduction of this pear {fig. 3) into our gar- 

 dens was through the same source as that of the Napoleon. 

 The Urbaniste was one of the varieties sent by Mr. Knight, 

 in 1823, to Mr. Lowell and the Mass. Ag. Soc, and from 

 Mr. Lowell's garden scions were very freely distributed, so 

 that the Urbaniste is now a very generally cultivated pear. 

 It was raised by the Count de Coloma, of Malines, who 

 first sent specimens of the fruit to the London Horticultural 

 Society in 1S23. It is somewhat remarkable that so excel- 



Urhaniste Pear. 



lent a pear has continued so long in cultivation without 

 having obtained, in England, a synonymous name. Trees 

 have, however, been received here from France as the Beur- 

 re de Roi, which have proved to be the true Urbaniste. It 

 is one of the very finest autumn pears. 



Size^ large, about three inches long and two and three- 

 quarters in diameter : Form, roundish obovate, regular, 

 largest in the middle, rounded off at the eye, and tapering 

 gradually to the stem, where it ends obtusely : Skin., fair, 

 smooth, pale yellowish green, with occasional patches of 



