PLATE LXIV. 
2. AUTOCRAT. 
A seedling raised by Mr. Rivers, of Sawbridgeworth (c. 1875), from Beurri Capiaumont, 
but it is as distinct from its parent in the character of its fruit, as it is also in the growth of the tree. 
Description .—Fruit : large, three inches and a half long, by two inches and three quarters 
broad, pyriform, tapering towards the stalk. . Skin : yellow, covered with patches of light russet, 
taking a warm reddish brown tint on the side next the sun. Eye : open, with connivent segments 
on a level with the surface. Stalk : stout, half to three quarters of an inch long, inserted slightly on 
one side, without depression. Flesh : of a yellow tint, tender, melting, sweet, very juicy. It has a 
delicate flavour of rose water. 
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A very fine pear, in season during the month of October. 
The tree is compact in growth, and the wood remarkably short jointed. It forms a natural 
pyramid, and is best adapted for this mode of growth. 
