PLATE XXXII. 
4. BEURR6 CLAIRGEAU. 
[Syn : Clairgeau; Clairgeau de Nantes .] 
This handsome Pear was raised at Nantes by a gardener of the name of Pierre Clairgeau, 
in the Rue de Bastille, abont the year 1840. The original tree was purchased by M. de Jonghe, of 
Brussels, who distributed it. It was sent to England in the year 1848 by M. Rene Langelier, of 
Jersey. 
Description .—Fruit : large, and very handsome; curved pyriform. Skin : smooth and 
shining, of a fine lemon yellow colour, and with a tinge of bright orange red on the side next the 
sun ; it is thickly covered all over with large russety dots, and patches of thin delicate russet, 
particularly round the stalk. Eye : small and open, level with the surface. Stalk : half an inch 
long, stout and rather fleshy, with a swollen lip on one side of it. Flesh : white, crisp, or half 
melting, coarse-grained, juicy, sweet, and slightly musky. 
A very handsome showy Pear ; in season in November. It commands a good price in the 
market by its great beauty and size, but these are its chief recommendations. It is a very variable 
Pear, and in a warm situation, on a wall, it sometimes proves good, but its usual fate in English 
gardens, is to give place to better fruit. The Durondeau , which is fully as large, almost equally 
handsome, and of much finer quality, should take its place. 
The tree is very vigorous, forms a good pyramid, bears freely, and when trained on a wall, 
yields an abundance of fruit of large size and great beauty. 
