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XXXIII. On a new Variety of Pear. By Thomas Andrew 

 Knight, Esq.F.R. S. $c. 



Read January 2, 1810. 



ad the Pear been recently introduced into England from 

 a climate similar to that of the South of France, in which it 

 had been found to ripen in the months of August and Sep- 

 tember, and to become fit for the desert in the four suc- 

 ceeding months, it might have been inferred, with little 

 apparent danger of error, that the same fruit would ripen 

 here in October, and be fit for our tables during winter; 

 provided its blossoms proved sufficiently hardy to set in our 

 climate. But had many varieties of this fruit been proved 

 by subsequent experience to be capable of acquiring matu- 

 rity before the conclusion of our summer, and in the early 

 part of the autumn, without the aid of a wall, scarcely any 

 doubts could have been entertained of the facility of obtain- 

 ing numerous varieties, which would ripen well on standard 

 trees to supply our tables during winter : for it would be very 

 extraordinary if the whole of our summer, and of our long, 

 and generally warm autumn, would not affect that, which a 

 part of our summer alone, had been proved to be capable of 

 effecting; nevertheless, though varieties of the Pear abound, 

 which bear and ripen well in the early part of the autumn, 

 we possess scarcely any good winter Pears, which do not 

 require an east or west wall, in the warmer parts of England, 



