PLATE XLII. 
# [Syn : 136 de la Cour; Beau de la Cour; Conseilleur de la Cour; Marechal DScours; 
Due d’Orleans ; Grosse Marie.'] 
A seedling of Dr. Van Mons, who sent grafts from it to M. Bivort in April, 1842, with the 
name “ Marechal de Cour , gain de 1841,1a meillure existante.” Notwithstanding this M. Bivort 
distributed it under the name Conseiller de la Cour , and in 1847 it was sent to Dr. Hogg by M. 
Papeleu under the same name. Dr. Hogg restored its original name. 
Description . — Fruit: large, sometimes very large, nearly four inches and a half long, and three 
inches and three-quarters wide ; oblong, pyriform but slightly undulating, pretty even in its outline. 
Skin : thickly covered with cinnamon-coloured russet, so much so as to be encrusted with it, and 
permitting only very little of the pale yellow ground to show through it. Eye : large and open, 
with long, stout and somewhat woody segments set in a moderate depression. Stalk : from an 
inch to an inch and a quarter long, inserted on the wide, blunt apex of the fruit without depression. 
Flesh : yellowish, very tender, melting and buttery, with an abundant richly flavoured juice, which 
is sweet, sprightly, and with a fine perfume. 
One of the finest Pears in cultivation, in season about the end of October and beginning of 
November. 
The tree is remarkably robust and not inclined to canker. It forms fine pyramids or 
standards, and bears abundantly. Some think the flavour of its fruit improved when grown on the 
quince stock. 
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