PLATE LX 11 . 
4. WHITE DOYENNE. 
[Syn : Doyenne Blanc ; Beurre Blanc ; Doyenne Picte ; Citron de Septembre ; Bonne Ente ; 
Neige; St. Michel; Seigneur; Deans; Pine; Snow; Warwick Bergamot; White Beurre; White 
Autumn Beurrel\ 
The history of this well known pear seems lost. It is a very old variety, very widely grown 
and very generally esteemed, as the number of its synonyms indicates. It is a very favorite pear 
in France and Germany. It is figured by Lindley in the Pontological Magazine , PI. 60. 
Description. —Fruit : above medium size, obovate, handsome and regularly formed. Skin : 
smooth and shining, pale bright green at first, and changing as it attains maturity to pale yellow, 
and when well exposed it has sometimes a fine red colour on the side next the sun. Eye : very small 
and closed, set in a shallow and slightly plaited basin. 'Stalk : three quarters of an inch long, stout, 
fleshy, and set in a small round cavity. Flesh : white, buttery and melting ; and of a rich, sugary, 
delicately perfumed, and somewhat vinous flavour. 
An excellent autumn dessert pear, ripe in September and October. It is a very handsome 
fruit, but it must be eaten at the time it is ripe, since it quickly becomes mealy. When in perfection 
it yields to none in excellence. 
The tree is healthy, vigorous, and an abundant bearer. It succeeds well as a standard either 
on the pear, or quince stock. The fruit is best flavoured from a standard tree, but if grown on the 
quince stock against a wall, or on an espalier, it grows to a larger size, and is often beautifully 
coloured. 
