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' Conference ' being given by the Committee as a 

 memento of the meeting, being one of the few seedling 

 English pears exhibited at this remarkable gathering- 

 It is singular that it was raised from the baking pear 

 ' Leon le Clerc de Laval,' a few pips of which I planted in 

 idleness, my condemned seedlings being raised from pears 

 of the highest excellence. ' Conference ' is large and of 

 excellent quality, and will always be readily identified 

 by the peculiar salmon colour of the flesh. I may hope 

 that for a century to come it will be one of the Standard 

 English pears. 



' Parrot/ another of my seedlings, raised from the 

 Gansel's late Bergamot, was, in the opinion of the 

 Committee, destined to become a very popular pear ; the 

 fruit is bergamot-shaped, of a brilliant colour, of fine 

 quality, and of excessive fertility ; no other pear of the 

 same class was to be found among the numerous exhibits. 



The Committee of the Pear Congress hield at the 

 Royal Horticultural Society's Gardens, Chiswick, during 

 October 1885, selected the following new pears for 

 classification and introduction among the sorts already 

 well known ; all are of the highest quality for excellence 

 of flavour, size, and hardiness ; they grow equally well on 

 the pear or quince stock, and are specially adapted for 

 walls, pyramids, bushes, or cordons : — 



Beurrg Gifiard ..... August 

 Olapp's Favourite .... August 

 Summer Beurre d'Aremberg (Rivers) . September 



