PLATE LV. 
fertilization, and it must also be added that he kept his secret so effectually, that it remained for 
Thomas Andrew Knight to introduce the practice generally, some 70 or 80 years afterwards. 
Van Mons afterwards named this pear Roi de Wurtemberg , and received a handsome snuff¬ 
box as an acknowledgment of the compliment from the King of Wurtemberg, but this was an error 
that was only temporarily successful. 
In the environs of Mons, where the pear originated, the BeurrS d'Hardenpont was much 
oftener called the Glou Morpectu, converted afterwards by the French, when M. Noisette brought 
it from Belgium in 1806, into Goulu Morgeau. The word “glout” in Walloon signifies dainty or 
delicate and thus “glou morceau” means daintyb it : “goulu,” on the contrary, signifies greedy, or 
great eater ; so the BeurrS d'Hardenpont has become, through this strange alteration in name 
by the French, a gluttonous eater, instead of a fruit worthy of being eaten. 
Description. —Fruit: above medium size, three inches and a quarter long, and two and 
three-quarters wide; obovate, narrowing obtusely from the bulge to the eye and the stalk. Skin : 
smooth, pale greenish yellow, covered with greenish grey russet dots, and slight markings of russet. 
Eye : open, with long, flat, leafy segments set in a rather deep basin. Stalk : an inch and a half 
long, rather slender, inserted in a narrow cavity. Flesh : white, tender, smooth and buttery, of a rich 
and sugary flavour. 
A dessert fruit of the first quality, in season from December to January. 
The tree is hardy, not disposed to canker, and bears well. It forms a handsome pyramid 
in the open ground, but requires a wall in Herefordshire. In warm situations it succeeds well as 
a standard on the pear stock. It ought to take its place in every garden. 
A coloured figure is given in the Transactions of the London Horticultural Society, Vol. 
VII., PI. 4, P. 148. 
