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excellent bearer, and succeeds well as a standard, grows with moderate vigour 
on the quince, and does not form a good pyramid. It is better adapted for a 
standard or half-standard. It was raised by Dr. Van Mons. 
ALTHORP.— Hort. 
This variety is enumerated in the Catalogue of the Horticultural Society as 
having once existed in the Society’s Garden, but now either lost or discarded 
as unworthy of cultivation. It is described as of medium size, obovate shape, 
green on the shaded side, and brown on the other. Flesh buttery, and of 
second-rate quality as a dessert Pear. It is ripe in November, and the tree 
succeeds as a standard. 
ALTHORP CR AS ANNE.— Knight. 
Identification. —Hort. Trans. 2. s. i. 108. Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3. n. 165. Thomp. 
in Gard. Chron. 1845. 224, Down. Fr. Amer. 352. 
Figures. —Hort. Trans. 2. s. ii. 119. Down. Fr. Amer. fig. 147. 
Fruit rather above the medium size, 2f inches wide and 2| high, roundish 
obovate, widest in the 
middle, and tapering 
gradually to the apex, 
which is somewhat flat¬ 
tened, but rounding to¬ 
wards the stalk. Skin 
pale green, with a slight 
tinge of brown on the 
side exposed to the sun, 
and covered with mi¬ 
nute russetty dots. Eye 
rather large and open, 
placed in a shallow and 
slightly plaited basin. 
Stalk 1^ inch long, 
slender, curved, and 
not deeply inserted. 
Flesh white, buttery 
and juicy, with a rich 
and slightly-perfumed 
flavour. 
A dessert Pear, of 
the finest quality, 
which ripens in Octo¬ 
ber, and continues in 
use till December. The 
tree is hardy, vigorous, 
and an excellent bearer. 
It succeeds best as a 
standard, and is found 
to produce fruit of su¬ 
perior quality even in 
soils that are unfavour- Althorp Crasanne. 
able to the growth of Pears generally. 
This esteemed variety was raised by T. A. Knight, Esq., and first produced 
fruit in 1830. Mr. Knight says: “As a dessert Pear the Althorp Crasanne is, 
to my taste, the best; and its rose-water flavour will please where musk offends.” 
