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a half, or two inches long. The flesh is buttery, rich, and very high flavoured. Season the end of 
October and November. 
Remarks. — This variety first appeared in 1830, and fully equalled the Crasanne in size. It approaches it also in its 
globular shape. As a dessert pear, the Althorp Crasanne is, to my taste, the best; and its rose-water flavour will please where 
musk offends. Writing in 1836 Mr. Knight adds, “the original tree has borne well in all the last six years, and I believe it 
to be greatly more hardy than any of the Belgic varieties, and not less hardy than the Swan’s Egg. 
Monarch Pear.— (With coloured figure.) 
Fruit middle-sized, obovate; stalk short, rather thick; eye open, placed in a shallow depression. 
Skin yellowish, much speckled with brown, and having a tinge of brownish red next the sun. Flesh 
yellowish, melting, buttery, rich and sugary; slightly musky, but not disagreeably so. An excellent 
pear. Season, January. 
Remarks. —The Monarch , unlike most other pears, does not become mealy by being allowed to grow yellow on the 
tree; on the contrary, it is improved by being allowed to mature in this way. I named it Monarch under conviction that, for 
the climate of England, it Stands without an equal; and because it first appeared in the first year of the reign of our most 
excellent Monarch (William IV.) The whole character of the tree is wild and uncultivated, and the young wood very thorny. 
And in Vol. II. 2 nd Series, p. 68. Mr. Knight adds, I had this year (1834) a sufficient quantity of Monarch pears 
to enable me to ascertain the specific gravity of its juices, which was 1096, that is fifteen above the Stire apple, and about the 
same which a solution of 2lbs. 6oz. of sugar would give to 81 bs of water. The taste and flavour of the juice appear to me to 
be very delightful. 
Eastnor Castle Pear. (With coloured plate.) 
An ugly brown shrivelly pear with scarcely any green. It is quite round. Stalk long and 
strong. Good. Season, December. 
Remarks. —A very accurate description. The year 1830 is the date of the first existence of the variety. 
The Winter Crasanne Pear. 
Fruit large, irregularly turbinate, with a very hollow eye. Stalk thickened, and a little sunk 
at its insertion. Skin greenish yellow, intermixed with brown and some patches of cinnamon russet. 
Flesh inclining to yellowish white, melting, quite buttery, with very little grittiness, even at the core, 
rich, sugary, and very excellent; it has a little of the Chciiimontel flavour. This is without doubt a 
very valuable sort. Season, January. 
Remarks .—This variety first fruited in 1830. I retained only the smaller pears, whose merits did not seem so great 
as are thus represented. The large fruit of the Crasanne Pear, from which this description was derived, I have several times 
observed to be excellent in seasons when the smaller fruit was worthless. I thought the variety inferior to Monarch, Althorp 
Crasanne , and Eastnor Castle , but its weight greatly exceeds them. The growth of the original tree is enormously rapid. 
Ti-ie Whitfield Pear. 
Colour of a ripe Swans Egg , rather less russetty. Flesh melting, sweet and good, but dry. 
Not first-rate. Season November. 
Remarks .—I first saw this variety in 1826 when I thought it very excellent. In the three following years it appeared 
to me to possess little merit. Last year it was better, but not so good as in 1826. A light dry soil would I think render this 
variety uniformly excellent. 
