408 PEARS. 



village of Tillington, near Hereford. Its fruit was sent 

 to the Horticultural Society by Mr. Knight, of Downton 

 Castle, in the autumn of 1820, the first year of the tree 

 producing fruit. 



146. VIRGOULEUSE. Langley, t. 67. fig. 2. Du- 

 hamel, No. 95. t. 51. Miller 9 No. 56. 



Bujaleuf. Ib. 



Chambrette. Ib* 



Poire-glace. Jard. Fruit, t. 32, 



Fruit pretty large, of a very regular obovate, pyra- 

 midal figure, about three inches and a quarter long, and 

 two inches and a half in diameter. Eye small, rather 

 deeply sunk. Stalk an inch long, inserted in a rather 

 small oblique cavity. Skin very smooth, grass-green, 

 turning to a pale yellow or citron colour as it ripens, 

 sprinkled with numerous red dots, and occasionally a 

 little tinged with red on the sunny side. Flesh melting, 

 buttery, and full of an excellent, rich, and highly 

 flavoured juice. 



Ripe in November, and will keep two months. 



The Virgouleuse Pear ripened at Twickenham, in 

 1727? on a south wall, September 20. O. S., or October 

 1. N. S. Langley. 



It will succeed on both the Pear and the Quince. 



This is a most excellent Pear, requiring a good soil, 

 and an east or south-east wall. 



It takes its name from Virgoule, a village of that 

 name in the neighbourhood of St. Leonard, in Limousin^ 

 where it was raised, and sent to Paris, by the Marquis of 

 Chambrette. 



147. WINTER BONCHRETIEN. Langley, t. 68. fig. 3. 

 Miller, No. 73. 



Bonchretien d'Hiver. Duhamel, No. 87- t. 45. 

 Poire d'Angoisse. Jard. Fruit, t. 42. 

 Fruit very large, of an irregular, pyramidal figure ; 

 it is very broad at the upper end, and compressed below 



