PLATE XL. 
i. BRITISH OUEEN. 
This fine Pear was raised by Mr. Thomas Ingram, gardener to Her Majesty, at Frogmore, 
and the tree is said to be a seedling from the Seckle crossed with Marie Louise. Some of the fruit 
was sent to Her Majesty a few months before the decease of His Royal Highness the Prince 
Consort who highly approved of it. It received a first-class certificate from the Royal Horticultural 
Society. A coloured representation is given of it in the “ Florist and Pomologist ” for 1863. 
Description. —Fruit : large ; obovate-pyriform, the outline undulating and bossed. Skin : 
smooth, almost entirely covered with a thin coat of crimson-coloured russet, but on the side next the 
sun, it has a blush of bright rosy crimson. Eye : rather small, with short narrow segments, and 
considerably depressed. Stalk : about an inch long, very stout, and sometimes inserted obliquely 
in a round, narrow cavity. Flesh : yellowish white, very fine grained, buttery and melting, rich, 
sugary and having something of the flavour of Marie Louise , coupled with that peculiar briskness 
which is found in the Windsor pear. 
This is an excellent Pear. It ripens in the beginning of October, but its good qualities are 
very transitory, and it should therefore be presented at table the very day it becomes ripe. 
The tree grows freely and forms a good pyramid on the quince. It was first distributed by 
Mr. Charles Turner, of Slough, in 1863. 
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