522 THE PBUIT MANUAL. 



WHITE DOYENNE {Beurre Blanc; Bonne Ente ; Citron de 

 Septembre ; Dean's ; Doyenne Blanc ; Doyenne Picte ; Neige ; Pine; St. 

 Michel ; Seigneur ; Snoiv ; Warwick Bergamot ; White Autumn Beurre ; 

 White Beurre). — Fruit, above medium size ; obovate, handsome, and 

 regularly formed. Skin, smooth and shining ; pale bright green at first, 

 and changing as it attains maturity to pale yellow, and when well 

 exposed it has sometimes a fine red on the side next the sun. Eye, 

 very smaU and closed, set in a shallow and slightly plaited basin. 

 Stalk, three-quarters of an inch long, stout, fleshy, and set in a small 

 round cavity. Flesh, white, buttery, and melting, and of a rich, sugary, 

 and delicately perfumed and somewhat vinous flavour. 



An excellent autumn dessert pear ; ripe in September and October. 

 The tree is healthy, vigorous, and an abundant bearer, succeeds well 

 as a standard either on the pear or quince stock. The fruit is best 

 flavoured from a standard, and if grown on a quince stock against a 

 wall or an espalier it assumes a beautiful red colour next the sun, and 

 comes considerably larger than from a standard. It must be eaten in 

 good time, for if kept too long it shrivels and becomes wooUy and 

 mealy. 



Wilding of Caissoy. See Besi de Caissoy. 



Wilding Von Heri. See Bed d'Hery. 



Wilhelmiae. See Beurre d'Amanlis. 



WILLEEMOZ. — ^Fruit, large ; obtuse-pyriform, ribbed and bossed 

 in its outline. Skin, of a golden yellow colour, with a red blush on 

 the exposed side, and covered with fine russet dots. Stalk, an inch 

 long, woody. Flesh, white, fine-grained, buttery, and melting, very 

 juicy, sweet, and highly perfumed. 



A second-rate pear ; ripe in October and November. 



William the Fourth. See Louise Bonne of Jersey. 

 Williams'. See Williams' Bon Chretien. 



WILLIAMS' BON CHEETIEN {Bartlett ; De Lavault ; Wil- 

 liams'). — Fruit, large; obtuse-pyriform, irregular and bossed in its 

 outline. Skin, smooth, at first pale green, changing as it ripens to 

 clear yellow, and tinged with streaks of red next the sun. Eye, open, set 

 in a very shallow depression, but more generally even with the surface. 

 Stalk, an inch long, stout and fleshy, and inserted in a shallow cavity. 

 Flesh, white, fine-grained, tender, buttery, and melting, with a rich, 

 sweet, and delicious flavour, and powerful musky aroma. 



A dessert pear of the highest merit ; ripe in August and September, 

 but keeps but a short time. It should be gathered before it becomes 

 yellow, otherwise it speedily decays. The tree is hardy and vigorous, 

 but not a regular or abundant bearer, on which account its cultivation 

 is now much more limited among the London market gardeners. 



This esteemed pear was raised a short time previous to 1770, by a person of the 

 name of Wheeler, a schoolmaster at Aldermaston, in Berls^shire, from whom it was 



