Plate XXIV. 
2. SOLDAT LABOURER. 
[Syn : Soldat Esperen ; Auguste Van Mons Soldat; Beurri de Blumenbach .] 
A seedling grown by Major Esperen, and first fruited about the year 1820. 
Description. —Fruit: large, three inches and three-quarters long and three inches wide ; 
oblong obovate, narrowing from the bilge both towards the eye and the stalk. Skin : pale lemon 
yellow, marked here and there with tracings of russet, and completely covered with minute russet 
dots. Eye: large, slightly closed, with long accuminate segments, and placed in a shallow 
depression. Stalk : an inch long, inserted by the side of a fleshy swelling in a narrow cavity. 
Flesh : yellowish white, buttery, melting and very juicy, rich and sugary. 
This excellent pear has somewhat of the flavour of the Autumn Bergamot. It is in season 
through November. 
On the Quince stock it forms a very good pyramid, and bears profusely. 
