Plate IX. 
surface. Stalk, an inch long, stout, and fleshy, and inserted in a shallow cavity. Flesh, white, 
fine-grained, tender, buttery, and melting, with a rich, sweet, and delicious flavour, and powerful 
musky aroma. 
An excellent Autumn Dessert Pear ; in season in August and September. The tree is 
healthy and vigorous, but not a regular and abundant bearer. It succeeds best as a pyramid or 
standard on the pear, or quince stock, when the fruit is much better flavoured, though not so large 
as when grown on a wall. The fruit should be gathered before it is ripe, at intervals of a few days, 
that they may not all ripen together—for when ripe, it soon becomes mealy and decays. Its 
cultivation by the London market gardeners has become more limited than it was, in consequence 
of its fickleness in bearing. 
An excellent coloured representation is given of this pear in the Transactions of the 
Horticultural Society (London,) Vol. II., p. 250, where, and in Vol. III., p. 357, its history and 
description are given. 
