PLATE LXX. 
on the surface of the fruit. Flesh : white, melting, tender, buttery, and very juicy, with a rich, 
vinous, and perfumed flavour. 
A dessert pear of the first merit, in season during December and January. This pear turns 
yellow shortly before it is fit for the table, and if tasted then has something of the flavour of a 
druggist’s shop, but when in addition to its yellow colour it softens, the coarse flavour becomes very 
rich and highly aromatic. In the “Horticultural Transactions” of London, it is said that “this 
pear deserves to be placed at the head of all the pears in cultivation,” Vol. V., p. 406, and Vol. VII., 
p. 178. 
The tree is very hardy and bears abundantly. It grows freely on the pear and the quince 
stock, and succeeds well as a pyramid, an espalier, or as a standard. 
