PLATE XL 
[Syn : Colmar doree ; D Audi; Bergamotte tardive ; De Maune.~\ 
This valuable old Pear seems to have appeared much about the same time as the Chaumontel , 
for Merlet (1690) says of it, “ It has not been long about Paris, and is yet pretty rare ; but so good 
a fruit cannot be long in few hands.” La Ouintinye, also writing in 1690, states that he received it 
from a connoisseur at Guyenne. 
Description. —floruit: above medium size, obtuse, pyriform. Skin : smooth, pale green, 
changing to yellowish green, and strewed with grey russety dots. Eye : large and open, with long 
segments, and set in a rather deep depression. Stalk : an inch to an inch and a half long, stout, 
curved, and inserted obliquely in an uneven cavity. Flesh : greenish white, buttery, melting, 
tender, and with a rich sugary flavour. 
An old and highly esteemed dessert pear. It ripens in succession from November to 
February or March. 
The tree is hardy and vigorous, but in England it should be grown against a wall, or the 
fruit will become shrivelled and insipid. 
