PLATE LXVI 
[Syn : Belle et Bonne d'Ezde; Bonne de Zdes; Bonne de Hales; Brockworth Park; 
Belle Excellente ; Charles FrdddricC\ 
This pear was discovered as a wilding at Ezee, near Louches, in the Touraine in 1788, and 
was first brought into notice by M. Dupuy, a nurseryman, at Louches. It was re-discovered in 
1838 at Ezee, by M. Dupuy Jamain, a Parisian nurseryman. It was again brought into notice for 
the third time by Mr. Wheeler, of Gloucester, who found it growing against a wall at Brockworth 
Park, near Gloucester, without any name. He supposed it to be a seedling, and obtained for it a 
first-class certificate from the Royal Horticultural Society, in 1871, under the name of Brockworth 
Park. 
It is figured in the “Florist and Pomologist” for January, 1871, as the new Brockworth Park 
pear, as it was then thought to be. 
Description. —Fruit : large ; three inches wide, and four inches and a half long ; oblong, 
obovate. Skin : smooth, pale yellow, slightly flushed and streaked with crimson on the side exposed 
to the sun. Eye : small and closed with pointed segments, set in a shallow basin. Stalk : about 
an inch long, stout, and obliquely inserted. Flesh : tender, white, delicate, buttery and melting, 
very juicy, rich and vinous. 
This is an excellent pear when well cultivated, but it is apt to lose quality in an unfavourable 
soil, or situation. It is ripe in October. 
The tree forms an excellent pyramid on the quince, and bears profusely. It is moreover 
hardy and sets its fruit well. A young tree often bears from one to two dozen pears of good size. 
