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THE PEAR. 



tender; October to January; a great bearer, a hardy tree; and though the 

 fruit in a raw state is disagreeable, yet it is excellent when stewed. 



Spanish Bon Chretien. Large, pyramidal, yellowish green and red, tender 

 and very good; November and December; a moderate bearer, requiring a wall. 



Double de Guerre, syn. Double Krijgs. Large, oblong, obovate, brownish- 

 russet, and red, stews tender ; November to February ; a good bearer, and 

 succeeds well as a standard. 



Catillac, syn. Katzenkopf, or Cats* Head. Large, broadly turbinate, 

 brownish-yellow, and red, stews a good colour ; December to April ; a good 

 bearer, and succeeds well trained en pyramide. 



Uvedale's St. Germain, syn. Uvedale's Warden. Very large, oblong, 

 greenish-yellow, and brown, very good ; December to April ; a moderate 

 bearer, requires a wall, on which the fruit has been grown to weigh upwards 

 of three pounds, but it is not so productive as the preceding. 



1160. Perry Pears, arranged in the order of their merits. 

 Oldjield. Below the middle size, turbinate, pale, russet-green, austere ; a 

 great bearer, a hardy tree, and the specific gravity of the juice 1067. 



Barland. Small, obovate, greenish-russet, very austere ; a great bearer, 

 and the specific gravity of the juice 1070. 



Longland. Middle size, oval, yellowish, austere ; a great bearer, an up- 

 right tree, and the specific gravity of the juice 1063. 



Teinton Squash. Middle size, roundish, greenish- russet, very austere ; a 

 moderate and rather uncertain bearer, but the perry very highly esteemed. 



1161. A list of pears adapted for walls of different aspects, has been given 

 in p. 422. 



1162. A list of pears for espaliers, dwarfs^ or standards, trained conically 

 or spurred in, has been given in p. 428. 



1163. A list of pears adapted for an orchard or being grown as standards, 

 will be found in p. 432. 



1164. A selection of pears, where the space is very limited, or for cottage 

 gardens. — Jargonelle, Dunmore, Marie Louise, Beurre de Capiaumont, 

 Beurre Diel, Hacon's Incomparable, Glout-morceau, Easter Beurre, and 

 Beurre de Ranz. These are pears of first-rate excellence, and they will all 

 succeed as standards in any climate where wheat can be brought to per- 

 fection, with the exception of the jargonelle, which, from the causes already 

 mentioned (p. 546), requires a wall or espalier, even in the best climates. 

 Where there is only room in a cottage garden for one pear tree, Hacon's 

 Incomparable, which is one of the best, and almost a constant bearer, may 

 have one branch or limb grafted with the Marie Louise, others with the 

 Easter Beurre, Glout-morceau, and Beurre de Ranz, which would thus afford 

 a succession of fruit of first-rate excellence from October till March. The 

 three last-named pears may be advantageously trained against the walls of 

 a cottage, or on a trellis raised about 6 inches above its roof (987). The 

 jargonelle succeeds admirably against cottage walls, and on any aspect. 



1165. Pear trees of forms adapted for landscape scenery. — Glout-morceau, 

 a handsome pyramidal tree with spreading branches, hardy, a good bearer, 

 and the fruit most excellent. Swan's egg, a handsome pyramidal tree, and 

 an excellent bearer, but the fruit of only second-rate merit. The Elcho, a 

 Scotch variety, with a fastigiate head almost like that of a Lombardy poplar, 

 but the fruit of little value ; and the Beurre Diel, a handsome and some- 

 what fastigiate tree, a great bearer, and the fruit excellent. 



