TRANSACTIONS 



OF 



THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



I. Some Account of the Elton Pear. In a Letter to the 

 Secretary. % Thomas Andrew Knight, Esq.F. R. S. $c. 

 President. 



Read March 3, 1812. 

 My Dear Sir, 



I sent to the Horticultural Society on the 10th of last 

 September, a few Pears of a new variety, which I believe to 

 be considerably better than any of the same season now cul- 

 tivated. This variety ripens here generally about the 15th 

 of September; but it must be gathered a week or ten days 

 before, it is quite ripe, or it becomes, in some degree, mealy: 

 and it requires to be preserved, after being gathered, about 

 ten days, before it be eaten. By collecting the fruit, at suc- 

 cessive periods, I have brought it every day to my table 

 during five weeks, and its season terminates with the com- 

 mencement of that of the Autumn Bergamot. The fruit is 

 always without seeds, and almost wholly without internal 

 cavity. If trained to a wall, it becomes very large ; but it is 



