368 PEARS. 



ations, of climate and of aspect, which, the practical 

 gardener is well aware, contribute materially, not only 

 to the colour of the Pear, but of the Apple and the 

 Peach. Other names, and of these not a few, arise 

 from the locality of places where the fruit happens to be 

 cultivated. The Beurre Pear in France, as well as in 

 this country, is esteemed as the best of its season. It 

 is, however, a very tender tree, and more frequently 

 cankered than any other Pear cultivated in English 

 gardens ; on this account alone it is absolutely necessary 

 to plant it against a wall, upon a sound dry soil, and 

 against a south or south-east aspect. Without attend- 

 ing to these particulars in the Brown Beurre Pear, all 

 attempts to obtain fine and perfect specimens of fruit 

 will be attended with disappointment. 



72. CALEB ASSE. Hart. Soc. Cat. No. 164. 

 Calebasse Musquee. Knoop. Pom. p. 94. t. 3. 

 Fruit long, very irregular in figure, broadly angular, 



and knobby, about four inches long, and two inches and 

 a half in diameter, compressed below the middle, and 

 bent. Eye open, with a very short acute calyx. Stalk 

 one inch and a half long, bent, obliquely inserted under 

 one or two knobby lips. Skin greyish yellow, tinged 

 with a deeper yellow on the sunny side, and partially 

 covered with a thin orange-grey russet. Flesh break- 

 ing a little gritty, with a very saccharine and plentiful 

 juice. 



Ripe the end of September, and will keep two fcr 

 three weeks. 



73. CAPIAUMONT. Hort. Trans. Vol. v. p. 406. 

 Capiaumont. Pom. Mag. t. 59. 



Beurre de Capiaumont. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 91. 



Fruit middle-sized, turbinate, regularly tapering to 

 the stalk, about three inches and a quarter long, and two 

 inches and a half in diameter. Eye not at all sunk, but 

 level with the extremity. Stalk scarcely half an inch 



