PEARS. 517 



URBANISTE {Beurre Brapiez ; Beurri Oem; Beurre Picguery ; 

 Louis Dupont; Louise d' Orleans; Piequery ; St. Marc; Virgalieu 

 Musguee). — Fruit, medium sized ; obovate, or oblong-obovate. Skin, 

 smooth and thin, pale yellow, covered with grey dots and slight 

 markings of russet, and mottled with reddish brown. Eye, small and 

 closed, set in a deep narrow basin. Stalk, an inch long, inserted in a 

 wide and rather deep cavity. Flesh, white, very tender, melting, and 

 juicy, rich, sugary, and slightly perfumed. 



A delicious pear ; ripe in October. The tree is hardy and an excel- 

 lent bearer, forming a handsome pyramid either on the pear or the 

 quince. 



This excellent pear was raised in the (rarden of a nunnery, at Malines, belonging 

 to the Urbanistes. It has been in existence prior to 1786. 



UVEDALE'S ST. GERMAIN (Abbe Man gein ; Angora; Andmson ; 

 Beaute de Terwueren ; Belle Angevine ; Belle de Jersey ; Berthebirne ; 

 Bolivar ; Chambers' Large ; Comtesse de Terwueren ; Dr. Udale's War- 

 den ; Duchesse de Berri d'Hiver ; German Baker ; Oros Fin Or 

 d'Hiver ; Or esse de Bruxelles ; Lent St. Germain ; Pickering Pear ; 

 Pickering's Warden ; Piper; Boyale d'Angleterre ; Union). — Fruit, very 

 large, sometimes weighing upwards of 3 lbs., of a long pyriform or 

 pyramidal shape, tapering gradually towards the stalk and obtusely 

 towards the eye, rather curved and more swollen on one side of the 

 axis than the other. Skin, smooth, dai-k green, changing to yellowish 

 green, and with dull brownish red on the exposed side, dotted all 

 over with bright brown and a few tracings of russet. Eye, open, with 

 erect rigid segments, set in a deep, narrow cavity. Stalk, an inch to 

 an inch and a half long, curved, inserted in a small curved cavity. 

 Flesh, white, crisp, juicy, and slightly gritty. 



An excellent stewing pear ; in use from January to April. 



This appears to be an English pear, and to hare been raised by Dr. Uvedale, 

 who was a schoolmaster, and lived at Eltham, in Kent, in 1690. He appears to 

 have removed to Eltham, where he continued his school. Miller, in the first 

 edition of his Dictionary, in 1724, speaks of him as Dr. Udal, of Enfield, "A curious 

 collector and introducer of many rare exoticks, plants, and flowers." Bradley, in 

 1 733, speaks of the pear as " Dr. Udale's great pear, called by some the Union 

 pear, whose fruit is about that length one may allow eight inches." 



I am quite satisfied that this is Belle Angevine of the French pomologists ; any 

 person who had seen the two fruits could have no 'doubt on the subject. But in 

 M. Leroy's Dictionnaire he makes it a synony me of Tonneau, a fruit to which it has 

 no resemblance. One of the reasons given in the Dictionnaire for supposing it is 

 distinct from Belle Angevine is, because in a French edition of " Miller's Gardener's 

 Dictionary," Uvedale's St. Germain is described as " rond et verte fonce," but in 

 all the English editions it is correctly described as " a very large, long pear, of deep 

 green colour." 



The trouble M. Leroy has taken to investigate the history of this pear is very 

 considerable, and he has devoted a good deal of attention to the subject. It re- 

 ceived the name of Belle Angevine from M. Audusson, a nurseryman at Angers, 

 who received it from the Garden of the Luxembourg, under the name of Inconnue a 

 Compdte, in 1821. Beyond this M. Leroy cannot trace it. It is very probable that 

 by some means it was transported from England to Paris, for it had already, before 

 that time, been grown in our gardens for upwards of a century. 



