PLATE XXVI. 
i. AUGUSTE JURIE. 
This Pear originated from the seed of Beurre Giffard , sown on the nth .of August, 1851. 
It was grown at the £cole d’Horticulture at Ecully, near Lyons, under the direction of the late M. 
Willermoz, and it was named in honour of M. Auguste Jurie, President of the Horticultural Society 
of the Rhone. 
Description. —Fruit: above medium size, three and a half inches by two and a half inches 
wide, obtuse ovate. Skin : green, becoming yellowish green, as it ripens, with a thin speckled coat 
of russet on the side next the sun, and strewed all over with russet patches. Eye: closed, with 
tooth-like segments, and set even with the surface. Stalk : from an inch to an inch and a half long, 
inserted without depression. Flesh : crisp, rather granular, sweet, briskly flavoured, and with a fine 
melon flavour. 
The fruit here represented and described was grown in the gardens of the Royal Horticultural 
Society at Chiswick. In France it grows more round in shape, with a shorter stalk, and, as 
described by the Abbe Dupuy, it has a much brighter colour. It is a valuable early pear, ripe in 
the middle of August, and well worthy of general cultivation. It received the certificate of the 
Royal Horticultural Society on August 24th, 1880. 
The tree grows well and bears freely as a pyramid on the quince. 
