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XVII. A Report upon some new seedling Pears raised by 

 Thomas Andrew Knight, Esq. F. R. S. President. With 

 remarks upon their respective qualities. 



Read March 15, 1831. 



The Pears which are the subject of the following report, are 

 seedlings raised by Mr. Knight. The descriptions were made in 

 the Garden of the Society from specimens examined in 1827, 1828 

 and 1830. The remarks have been added by Mr. Knight. 



Garnons Pear. 



Fruit large, somewhat irregular, increasing beyond the middle, and from thence dimi- 

 nishing towards the eye, which is in a shallow depression or nearly level. The skin is 

 yellowish upon a wall, but remains long green if grown upon a standard. In size it 

 resembles a winter Bon Chretien, but the quality of the latter is not by any means to be 

 compared with it. Flesh yellowish, juicy, melting and rich. A very excellent Pear. 

 Season, January. 



I have seen this Pear, the produce of the original seedling tree, 

 in each of the last five years ; and its merits have appeared to me 

 to be, in all seasons, above mediocrity. Of its good qualities, as a 

 wall Pear, I am wholly ignorant, having sent the two, produced by 

 a graft inserted into a tree upon my south wall here, in the last 

 season to the Horticultural Society ; but the report is more favor- 

 able than I had anticipated, after such a season. The trees grow 

 well and bear very freely, and at an early age. 



Foxley Pear. 



Yellowish brown, rather gritty, but extremely pleasant and rather high-flavoured. 

 Vinous like the Galston Moor-fowl Egg. Season, November. 



