PLATE LXIV 
4. THE PRINCESS. 
This pear was raised by Mr. Rivers, of Sawbridgeworth (c. 1875), and was a seedling from 
Louise Bonne of Jersey. 
Description .—Fruit : large and handsome, four inches long by three inches broad, pyriform, 
regularly and handsomely shaped. Skin : smooth, greenish yellow on the shaded side, but taking 
often a bright red colour next the sun, and more or less covered with thin russet. Eye : open, with 
erect short segments, almost on a level with the surface. Stalk : strong, and fleshy, three quarters 
of an inch long, inserted obliquely on one side, sometimes almost at right angles with the axis of the 
fruit. Flesh : yellowish, tender and melting, with a rich vinous and sugary flavour, thought 
sometimes to represent that of its parent Louise Bonne of fersey , but it has often a perfume like 
vanilla. 
A large and excellent pear, in season from the end of November to Christmas time, perhaps 
the most desirable of all periods, for dessert fruit. 
The tree is hardy, very compact in growth, and bears abundantly. It grows equally well on 
the pear, or the quince stock; but is better adapted for a pyramid, an espalier, or a wall, than for 
an orchard. 
