Plate XV. 
2. UVEDALE’S ST. GERMAIN. 
|_Syn : Dr. Udale's Warden; Union Pear; Pickering Pear; Pickerings Warden; Piper; 
Pound Pear; Winter Bell Pear; Chambers Large; Lent St. Germain; German Baker; 
Audusson ; Bolivar; Royale d' Angle ter re ; LInconnue a Compote ; Belle Angevine ; Abbe Mongein, 
Belle de Jersey ; Angora ; Be ante de Terueren ; Comtesse de Terueren ; Duchesse de Berm aHiver, 
Gros Fin Or dHirer ; Berthebirne ; Grosse de Bruxelles.\ 
This celebrated English Pear was raised by Dr. Uvedale, who was a schoolmaster, and lived 
at Eltham, in Kent, in 1690. Dr. Uvedale appears to have removed to Enfield where he continued 
his school. Miller, in the first edition of his Dictionary in 1724, speaks of him as “ Dr. Udal of 
Enfield, a curious collector and introducer of many rare exoticks, plants, and flowers. Biadley in 
1 733 speaks of the pear as “ Dr. Udale’s great Pear, called by some the “ Union Pear , whose 
fruit is about that length, one may allow eight inches.” M. Leroy took much trouble to investigate 
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