PLATE LI. 
A Plate of Seedling Pears Produced from Hybridisation by Thos. Andrew Knight. 
i. MONARCH. 
The true representation of this celebrated pear is given by this section and coloured drawing. 
Its history and description are fully given at page 43 of the introduction of this work, and (with a 
false representation of it) on Plate iv. In consequence of this error, the Woolhope Club would 
gladly suppress Plate iv. altogether, but since in these days it is impossible to suppress anything 
that has once been published, it is thought better to correct the mistake by giving the true figure. 
The error arose from Mr. Knight’s gardener accidentally sending wrong grafts under the name of 
Monarch to the “ London Horticultural Society.” These were distributed over the country and 
propagated by nurserymen for some years before the error was discovered, and thus was created a 
confusion, which has lasted half a century. It is only fair to say that the mistake on Plate iv. of 
this book was due to the false figure given in the “ Transactions of the London Horticultural 
Society,” when Mr. Knight himself was the President of the Society ; and it was never afterwards 
corrected there. (See introduction p. 43 ; and Plate iv. for the letterpress description.) 
It may be as well to add here that young trees of the true variety often have thorns. The 
bark has a yellowish tinge, and the buds when they begin to push exhibit a fawn coloured down on 
the scales. Whereas in trees of the spurious variety, the shoots and the curved prickles are of a 
dark violet colour and the buds are glossy. 
