PEARS. 393 



Diel's Butterbirne. DieVs Versuch, fyc. Vol. xix. 

 p. 70. 



Dorothee Royale. Van Mons, Cat. p. 5. 



Beurre de Gelle. | Ofvarious Colledi according 



S 6 " 1 " 6 , ^ to *e Pom. Mag. 



Poire de Melon. J 



Fruit large, about the size and figure of the sum- 

 mer Bon-chretien, without the protuberances of that 

 variety : it is much swollen a little above the middle, 

 going off to the eye either abruptly or gradually, and 

 tapering straight to the stalk, without any contraction of 

 figure ; when fully grown, it is four inches and a half 

 long, and three inches and a half in diameter. Eye 

 close, in a deep hollow, surrounded by knobs, ribs, or 

 broad protuberances. Stalk one inch and a half long, 

 strong, bent, woody, inserted in a deep, irregularly and 

 obtusely angled cavity. Skin bright green when first 

 gathered, changing in a short time to a bright orange, 

 with a little trace of russet. Flesh clear white, a little 

 gritty towards the core, but otherwise perfectly tender 

 and melting, juicy, with a delicious, rich, aromatic, sac- 

 charine flavour. 



In eating from November till January. 



It succeeds on both the Pear and the Quince. 



The above description is taken from a very fine fruit 

 produced against a wall> and figured in the 5th No. of 

 the Pom. Mag. No. 19- As, however, it varies con- 

 siderably from this, when grown upon an open standard, 

 another figure of it has been published in the same 

 work, No. 131., which exhibits it in its more general 

 character, and fully corresponds with the description I 

 had written of the Dorothee Royale, in December, 

 1829, from a fruit grown in the Horticultural Garden 

 at Chiswick ; viz. 



Fruit pretty large, oblong, somewhat narrowed to- 

 wards the stalk, and a little angular on the sides, in the 



