350 PEARS. 



from the stalk, diminishing a little to the eye, about three 

 inches and a quarter long, and three inches in diameter. 

 Eye connivent, moderately depressed. Stalk short and 

 thick. Skin green, nearly smooth, becoming pale yel- 

 lowish-green, after the fruit has been gathered some 

 time, and is fit for table. Flesh white, firm, juicy, 

 becoming buttery and melting, rich and excellent. 



Ripe the middle of September. 



A very hardy tree, and a great bearer as an open 

 standard. 



38. WILLIAMS'S BONCHRETIEN. Hort. Trans. 

 Vol. ii. p. 250. 1. 16. 



Fruit pretty large, of an irregular, pyramidal, and 

 somewhat truncated form, from three to four inches 

 long, and from two to three inches in diameter. Eye 

 seated on the summit, and never in a hollow or cavity, 

 as in other varieties called Bonchretien. Stalk an inch 

 long, very gross and fleshy. Skin pale green, mottled 

 all over with a mixture of darker green and russet 

 brown, becoming yellowish and tinged with red on the 

 sunny side when fully ripe. Flesh whitish, very tender 

 and delicate, abounding with a sweet and agreeably per- 

 fumed juice. 



Ripe the end of August to the middle of September. 



This Pear appears to have sprung up from seed in 

 the garden of Mr. Wheeler, a schoolmaster at Alder- 

 maston, in Berkshire, previously to 1770, as it was then 

 a very young plant. An account of it was published by 

 the Horticultural Society, as above, in 1816, at which 

 time the garden in which the tree grew was in the pos- 

 session of Wm. Congreve, Esq. 



39. WINDSOR. Of all English Gardens. 



Fruit middle-sized, oblong, obovate, not either pyra- 

 midal or turbinate, being widest above its middle, taper- 

 ing to the crown, and suddenly contracted towards the 

 stalk, where it is slender ; about three inches and a half 



