372 PEARS. 



Fruit large, roundish-oblong, tapering towards the 

 stalk, with an extremely uneven knobby surface, usually 

 measuring about three inches and a half each way, or 

 four inches deep, and three inches and a half in diameter, 

 but sometimes much larger. Eye deeply sunk in an 

 irregular hollow. Stalk an inch long, stout, deeply 

 inserted in an irregular cavity. Skin dull yellow, 

 copiously and irregularly spotted with broad russet 

 patches. Flesh rich, melting, very juicy, and high- 

 flavoured, with a most agreeable perfume. 



Ripe in October and November. 



This succeeds extremely well on the Quince, as well 

 as the Pear. 



The Duchess of Angouleme, the very finest of the 

 late autumn Pears, is said to have been found wild in a 

 hedge of the Forest of Armaille, near Angers. It 

 arrives at a weight unusual in Pears that are fit for the 

 dessert. Jersey specimens have been seen, which mea- 

 sured four inches and three quarters long, and four 

 inches and a half in diameter, weighing twenty-two ounces. 



The trees bear very early and certainly, especially if 

 grafted upon the Quince stock, for which the sort is 

 particularly well adapted. 



It is said to have derived its name from having been 

 found in July, 1815, when the reigning family in 

 France returned, for the second time, to the head of 

 the government. 



81. ENGLISH BEURRE, of some Collections. Hort. 

 Trans. Vol. iii. p. SO?. 



Beurre d'Angleterre. Duhamel, No. 76. t. 39. 



Fruit middle-sized, of an oval pyramidal figure, very 

 regularly formed at the crown, and tapering to the 

 stalk; about two inches and three quarters long, and 

 two inches in diameter. Eye small, with a short con- 

 nivent calyx, very little depressed. Stalk one inch and 

 a quarter long, slender, inserted without any cavity. 



