PLATE LXX. 
8. COMTE DE LAMY. 
[Syn : Beurre Curtet; Beurre Quetelet; Dingier.\ 
This variety is stated to have been raised at Jodoigne, in Belgium, in 1882, by M. Bouvier, 
and originally named Beurri Curtet , in honour of his friend M. Curtet. 
Description .—Fruit : below medium size, roundish obovate. Skin : yellowish green, with 
brownish red next the sun, and strewed with russety dots. Eye: small, set in a slight depression. 
Stalk : an inch long, inserted in a small cavity. Flesh : white, tender, buttery, melting, sugary, and 
richly flavoured. 
A small but delicious pear, ripe in October. 
The tree is very hardy, and a good bearer. As an orchard standard on the crab stock it 
grows healthily, and bears an abundance of fruit of the first quality. The young trees moreover 
come very early into bearing, and for these reasons it is a very valuable pear, which should be 
grown in every garden. It forms an excellent bush, or pyramid, on the quince stock. 
