400 PEARS. 



This is a very beautiful Pear, and bears well as a 

 standard. It is called the Forelle, Truite, or Trout 

 Pear, from a fancied resemblance between the spots and 

 colour of its skin and those of the fish so called. Dr. 

 Diel supposes it originated in Northern Saxony. 



It was brought to this country a few years ago, and 

 fruited by Mr. Knight of Downton Castle, who sent it 

 for exhibition to the Horticultural Society about 1823. 



129. GLOUT MORCEAU. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 291. 

 Gloux Morceaux.* Hort. Trans. Vol. vii. p. 179. 



t.4. 



Fruit very like the Beurre d'Aremberg, but larger, 

 more oval, not so turbinate in its shape, about four 

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

 Eye small, -deeply sunk, in an uneven oblique hollow. 

 Stalk an inch long, rather deeply inserted in an oblique 

 cavity. Skin pale dull olive green, a little inclining to 

 yellow, and covered with numerous grey russetty specks, 

 with russetty blotches round the stalk. Flesh whitish, 

 firm, very juicy, but a little gritty at the core. 



Ripe in November, and will keep till February or 

 March. 



This very beautiful and very fine variety was sent to 

 the Horticultural Society by M. Parmentier of Enghien, 

 along with the Beurre d'Aremberg, in November, 1820. 

 It requires an east or south-east wall to grow it in 

 perfection; but very fine specimens were (in 1830) 

 grown upon open standards in the Horticultural 

 Garden at Chiswick, three inches and a half long, and 

 three inches in diameter. 



130. GRUMKOWER. 



Grumkower Winterbirne. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 316. 

 Fruit middle-sized, in shape somewhat like a Bon- 



* M. Dumortier Rutteau of Tournay, in a letter recently re- 

 ceived from him, asserts that the proper orthography of this name 

 is Glout Morceau. 



