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XLIV. Some Account of the Red Doyenne Pear. By 

 Richard Anthony Salisbury, Esq. F. R. S. $c. 

 Secretary. 



Read April 2, 1811. 



On e of the objects of the Horticultural Society being to 

 make known, and more certainly distinguish by accurately 

 coloured figures, several valuable fruits, the places of which 

 are too often usurped by inferior varieties, I beg leave to call 

 their attention to a Pear, which I call the Red DoyennS. 



This excellent Pear is little known, and was some years 

 ago sold by many nurserymen for a new variety. I believe 

 it, however, to be very old, and have little doubt that it has 

 been in England more than a century ; for in a large tree of 

 it, taken down at Shawhill, near Halifax, in 1779, I counted 

 eighty annual circles. 



Two Pears, of the name of Denny and Dionier, are men- 

 tioned by Worlidge in 1676, but he gives no description 

 of them. This possibly may be one of those ; at any rate 

 it is now confounded in our gardens with a very inferior 

 Pear, under the name of Diana Pear. 



In the magnificent work on Fruit Trees, publishing at Paris 

 by Messrs. Poiteau and Turpin, two Pears are described, 

 and called the Doyenne' and Doyenne Roux. Ours I take to 

 be the latter, but solely from the description ; the figure of it, 

 though probably by this time published at Paris, not having 

 yet reached this country. The authors of that work very 



