By Thomas Andrew Knight, Esq. 107 



ing in the beginning of October; and I should then have pro- 

 nounced those very excellent Pears under any circumstances. I 

 did not gather the remainder till after the middle of October, when 

 many of the Pears had become yellow upon the tree ; and those, 

 I imagined, would soon become mealy, and consequently worthless ; 

 as Pears generally do, which are suffered to become perfectly ripe 

 before they are gathered. I consequently sent to the Society those 

 only which were less mature ; but I subsequently found that those, 

 which had become most mature and yellow upon the tree, did not 

 shew the least disposition to become mealy, and were much better 

 than the others. I am therefore inclined to believe that the com- 

 parative merits of this variety have been rather underrated. I 

 named it the Monarch under conviction that, for the climate of 

 England, it stands without an equal ; and because it first appeared 

 in the first year of the reign of our most excellent Monarch. I 

 send a drawing which presents very accurately the size, form and 

 colour of the largest and best sample which I possessed. I kept 

 a couple of Pears of this variety, till the beginning of February, at 

 which period they still retained their good qualities. The young 

 wood of this variety is very thorny ; and the whole character of the 

 tree is wild and uncultivated. 



Eastnor Castle. Plate II. fig. 2. 



An ugly brown shrivelly Pear, with scarcely any green. It is quite round. Stalk 

 long and strong. Good. Season, December. 



The above description of this Pear is very accurate, I think. I 

 obtained a considerable number of them in the last autumn, which 

 was the first of the existence of the variety. The greater part 

 ripened in December, and some of those I thought very excellent. 

 A few still remained, little changed in external character, till the 

 middle of February, but not retaining all their good qualities, 

 though still possessing considerable merit. I send a drawing of it, 

 which represents its ordinary size. 



