PLATE LXVI. 
3. VICAR OF WINKFIELD. 
[Syn : Belle Andrienne; Belle de Berry ; Belle Hdloise ; Bon Papa; Cornice de Toulon ; 
Curd; Monsieur le Cure; Curette; Monsieur de Clion; Cueillette d'Hirer ; Grosse Allongde ; 
Paternoster ; Pradel.\ 
This pear takes its English name from the fact of its having been introduced into England by 
the Rev. W. L. Rham, of Winkfield, in Berkshire. An excellent coloured illustration is given of it in 
the “ Florist and Pomologist ” for 1864, with the following account of its early history, extracted from 
the Transactions of the Horticultural Society of Berry. “ Towards 1760, M. Leroy, cure of Villiers, 
in Brennes, a parish situated eight kilometres from Clion, in the department of Indre, met with it in 
the wood of Fromenteau, a quarter of a league from the chateau of that name, as a wild pear, the 
fruit of which appeared to him sufficiently remarkable, to induce him to propagate it. He grafted 
it in a vineyard adjoining his garden, and from thence have come the innumerable trees to be found 
in the neighbourhood.” 
Description.— Fruit : very large ; slender pyriform, frequently one-sided. Skin : smooth, 
greenish yellow, with a faint tinge of red on the side next the sun. Eye : open, set in a shallow 
basin, and placed on the opposite side of the axis of the stalk. Stalk : an inch and a half long, 
slender, obliquely inserted, without depression. Flesh : white, fine grained, half melting, juicy and 
sweet, with a musky aroma. 
A handsome pear, which in warm seasons is melting and good. It is in -season from 
November till January. It is also used for stewing. 
The tree is hardy, and grows well. It requires a sheltered situation, or should be grown 
against a wall 
