PLATE LV. 
i. GLOU MORCEAU 
[Syn : Beurre d’Hardenpont; Roi de Wurtemburg ; Hardenpont d' Hiver; Beurre de 
Cambron ; De Cambron; Glou Morpeau de Cambron ; Got Luc de Cambron ; Goulu Morpeau ; 
BeurrS de Kent; Beurre Lombard; Colmar d'Hiver ; Linden d'Automnei] 
The Abbe Nicolas Hardenpont who raised this valuable pear was born at Mons, in Hainault, 
in 1705. He studied at the Louvain University, entered the Church and became a secular priest 
in his native town. He had a garden at the foot of Mont Panisel, in which he carried on his efforts 
to obtain new varieties of fruit, with great perseverance and with wonderful success. He continued 
his sowings about the year 1730, and awaited the results during a space of 30 years. An old 
indication assigns the date of 1758 to his obtaining the Passe Colmar , that of 1759 to that of the 
Beurre d* Hardenpont (or Glou Morpeau), and that of 1762 to that of the Beurre Ranee; whilst 
his varieties, the D 6 lices dHardenpont , and the Fondante Panisel were obtained still later.” M. Du 
Mortier, a very distinguished Belgian botanist, from whose work the “ Pomone Tournaisienne ” 
these facts are taken, thinks the Abbe must have had recourse to artificial cross fecundation in order 
to obtain such fortunate results, for the sexes of plants had been plainly indicated by Cameraring 
since 1649, and he may even have met the immortal Linnaeus himself. M. Du Mortier 
believes, the Beurri HHardenpont (or Glou Morpeau) to be “a cross between the Besi de 
Chaumontel and the Doyenni , since it has the tortuous wood, the undulated leaves, and the shape of 
fruit of the former, with the delicate melting flesh and the golden skin of the latter.” If this 
supposition is true, Nicolas Hardenpont was the first to produce new varieties of fruit by cross 
