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XVII. Notice of Five Varieties of Pears, received from 

 Jersey in the year 1826. By Mr. John Lindley, F.L. S. 

 fyc. Assistant Secretary for the Garden. 



Read December, 19, 1826. 

 The unusually fine summer that has been lately expe- 

 rienced in this kingdom has had a powerful effect upon 

 most of the productions of our soil, and especially upon 

 the fruits which serve for winter store. But perhaps its 

 agency has been shewn more conspicuously in the excellence 

 to which it has brought our Pears, than in its effect upon 

 any other description of fruit. In the favoured climate of 

 Jersey, this has been more distinctly perceived; and the 

 Pears produced in that Island, which, as is well known, have 

 always been celebrated, have this year arrived at a state of 

 beauty and excellence of flavour, of which they had scarcely 

 been supposed to be susceptible. 



A more favourable opportunity cannot be expected to 

 occur, for giving an account of some of the best varieties 

 cultivated in Jersey ; and as sufficient means have been fur- 

 nished, by liberal supplies of specimens from Captain Le 

 Couteur, and Mr. Peter Langelier, both resident in the 

 Island, and valuable correspondents of the Society, I gladly 

 avail myself of the means thus afforded of laying a brief 

 account of a few of them before the Society. In doing 

 this, I shall confine my remarks to five kinds, which proved 

 to be of such first-rate excellence, as to deserve general cul- 



