398 PEARS. 



Dayenne d'Hiver. Of some Collections, according 

 to the Pom. Mag. 



Fruit large, roundish oblong, broadest towards the 

 eye, nearly four inches long, and three inches and a half 

 in diameter. Eye small with a connivent calyx, sunk 

 in a moderately deep depression. Stalk short, thick, 

 sunk in a deep obtuse-angled cavity. Skin green, thickly 

 mottled with small russetty dots ; when ripe becoming 

 yellowish, and coloured with brown, somewhat streaky, 

 on the sunny side. Flesh whitish, inclining to yellow, 

 perfectly buttery and melting, and extremely high- 

 flavoured. 



In eating from November till May. 



This succeeds on both the Pear and the Quince, 



Of all the very late keeping Pears this is decidedly 

 the best. It has been recently introduced into this 

 country from the Continent, but its origin there is not 

 known. It is a most profuse bearer, grafted upon the 

 Quince, and requires a south or south-east wall. 



This must not be confounded with the Easter Berga- 

 mot, a good but inferior variety ; from which it is dis- 

 tinguishable, not only by its fruit, but also by its wood, 

 which is reddish brown, not green, as that of the former 

 sort. 



The Easter Beurre bears well as an open standard in 

 the Horticultural Garden at Chiswick. The specimens 

 produced there in 1830, were very beautiful; three 

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



127- FLEMISH BON-CHRETIEN. 



Bon-chretien Nouvelle Espece. Hort. Gard. Coll. 



Fruit large, oblong, turbinate, tapering towards the 

 stalk, where it is slightly compressed ; about four inches 

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

 Eye open, with a very short calyx, sunk in a rather 

 shallow, round, even, depression. Stalk one inch and 

 a half long, embossed next the fruit, a little curved, 



