XXVI. ROSA‘CEH: PY‘RUS. 419 
762, P.c. var. Glout Morceau. 
and hanging late on the tree. There is a plate of this variety in the 
Arb. Brit., 1st edit., vol. vi. 
Napoléon.— Leaves broad and shining. Blossoms large. The tree 
vigorous, and a good bearer. The fruit excellent. 
Swan’s Egg.— A handsome pyramidal tree, andan excellent bearer. The 
fruit roundish, or obovate. This is one of the commonest pear 
trees in the market-gardens about London; and we have introduced 
the name here, from having ourselves observed the handsome shapes 
taken by the trees, The fruit, however, as compared with that of 
the above sorts, is not worth cultivating. 
The following Scotch pears are recommended by Mr. Gorrie, as 
forms adapted for landscape scenery ; but little can be said in favour 
of their fruit, as compared with that of the new Flemish varieties. 
The Benvie, the Golden Knap, and the Elcho take fastigiate forms ; the 
latter more especially, Mr. Gorrie says, may be called the Lombardy 
poplar of the pear tribe. These trees generally attain the height 
of from 45 ft. to 50 ft. in as many years, in the Carse of Gowrie, in 
Perthshire, 
The busked Lady and the Pow Meg take spreading orbiculate forms, such 
as will assort with the A’cer Psetdo-Platanus, and may be called the 
oaks and elms of the pear family. (See Gard. Mag., vol. iv. p. 11.) 
The pear tree, in a wild state, has a pyramidal-shaped head, with thorny 
branches, at first erect, and afterwards curved downwards and pendulous. 
The roots are few, and descend perpendicularly, with few lateral ramifications, 
except in shallow and rich soil. The leaves vary exceedingly in different 
soils, and in different parts of Europe and Asia : in Britain they are generally 
green, and slightly tomentose, and do not differ greatly in magnitude ; but in 
the woods of Poland, and in the vast steppes of Russia, the leaves of the 
wild pear trees are commonly white with down, and vary so exceedingly in 
their dimensions, as to include what are called the willow-leaved, the sage- 
leaved, the eleeagnus-leaved, and other narrow-leaved varieties, which by 
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