PLATE LI. 
2. ROUSE LENCH. 
This fine Pear was raised by Mr. Knight and first fruited (c. 1820). It was named from an 
estate near Evesham, Worcestershire, called “ Rouse Lench,” which belonged to his son-in-law, 
Sir William Rouse Boughton, Bart. A coloured figure is given in the Transactions of the London 
Horticultural Society , Vol. I. (2nd series), Plate 2, fig. 3. 
Description. —Fruit : large, three inches and three quarters long, and two inches and a half 
wide ; oblong oval, or pyriform, uneven and undulating in its outline. Skin : pale green changing 
to lemon yellow, with a slight russety covering. Eye : large and open like that of a Jargonelle. 
Stalk : an inch and a quarter long, inserted without depression. Flesh : yellowish, buttery, juicy, 
sugary and well flavoured. 
An excellent well-flavoured pear, whose season may be prolonged by good management 
from December to January or February. 
The tree is vigorous in growth and of a drooping habit. Its long boughs droop all the 
more from the large crops of fruit which they seldom fail to bear. It is a very hardy profitable 
variety, and Mr. Knight thought it the best pear for the market that he had produced. The fruit 
often weighs between nine and ten ounces each, and unlike the Monarch fruit, it adheres so firmly 
to the tree that it is never blown off by the wind. Mr. Knight thought it would be more valuable 
if it were less productive, for the tree often bears more than it can properly nourish, and thus the 
pears are too small and of little value. 
