CHEVHEUSE PEAR. 
seen the variety, and considers it valuable ; and at his request 
grafts were sent to the society's garden, whence its members 
may hereafter be supplied. The importance of the London 
Horticultural Society’s collection of fmits may be judged of 
when it is stated that its catalogue of Pears alone contains 442 
varieties, in cultivation, besides 172 that have been proved un- 
worthy of retention. It likewise contains an immense number 
of synonymes, or different names which have been applied, in 
various localities, to the same fruits ; which synonymes, but for 
some such institution as the Horticultural Society, could never 
have been ascertained. Some thousands of fruit trees, of various 
descriptions, have been collected from all parts — not alone of 
Great Britain, but the continents of Europe and America, into 
its gardens, where, with their fruits, they have been compared 
with each other, their synonymes detected, their qualities 
proved, and their value registered, for the guidance of future 
horticulturists. We are also authorized to add, that Mr. Blake- 
way, who possesses the only tree that we have ever seen, will, 
with his accustomed liberality, present grafts to any gentleman 
desirous of adding this Pear to his collection. 
The Chevreuse Pear is in perfection from the middle of 
October to the middle of November, and is scarcely surpassed 
by any of its season. Its eye is very small, in an even, deepish 
bason; calyx short, and sometimes obliterated, leaving a nearly 
smooth eyeless hollow. Stem short, thick, issuing from a slight 
cavity. Skin yellowish-green, reddened on the sunned side, 
and the whole Pear more than half covered with broken, thin, 
brown russet, intermixed with russetty spots on the exposed 
side. Flesh yellowish, melting, juicy, mixed with a little fine 
grit, sugary, and having a rich perfumed flavour’. The tree, as 
a standard, is of moderately free growth, not subject to canker, 
somewhat spreading, and its young branches of slender growth. 
It is hardy, and a tolerably certain bearer. 
