CHEVMEIUSE FEAB. 
or this excellent, and almost unknown, Pear 
j we are indebted to the kindness of T. Blake- 
'' way. Esq , the first-appointed president of the 
Tenbury Horticultural Society, who, by his en- 
ergetic attention, generosity, and urbanity, 
extended its benefits to all classes of society. The Chevreuse 
Pear-tree this gentleman received, nearly forty years ago, from 
a friend in Kent, where it had been introduced from France. 
Its name has been supposed to be founded on that of the Duke 
de Chevreux ; but, in the absence of decisive information, it 
may rather be supposed to have been adopted from Chevreuse, 
the chief town of a canton, not far distant from Paris. 
Specimens of the Chevreuse Pear were transmitted to Mr. 
Thompson, the superintendent of the frait department in the 
London Horticultural Society’s Garden. He had not previously 
