SEPTEMBER. 
207 
Marshall says : “ The Barland Pear is in great repute* as producing a perry 
which is esteemed singularly beneficial in nephritic complaints.” 
BARONNE DE MELLO. 
Synonymes. —Beurre Van Mons; Adele de St. Denis. 
Fruit of a curved pyramidal shape, rounding towards the eye, and tapering 
on one side with a dipping curve towards the stalk; sometimes the surface is 
bossed or undulating, but generally it is even. Skin almost entirely covered 
with dark brown russet, which is thin and smooth, so that it has no roughness 
to the feel; on the shaded 
side, the ground colour, 
which is generally more 
or less visible, is greenish 
yellow, mottled over with 
russet. Eye small and 
open, with incurved, tooth¬ 
like segments, and placed 
in a very slight depression, 
sometimes almost level 
with the surface. Stalk 
half an inch long, slender, 
woody, and of a brown 
colour, inserted on the sur¬ 
face of the fruit. Flesh 
greenish yellow, fine¬ 
grained, melting, and but¬ 
tery ; juice very abundant, 
rich, sugary, brisk, and 
vinous, with a fine aroma 
when it is in perfection; 
but in some seasons, and 
in poor soils, in exposed 
and cold situations, I 
have found it coarse¬ 
grained and gritty, not at 
all sugary, and with a 
watery juice. 
This is a very excellent 
autumn Pear, and one of the very first quality. It ripens in the end of 
October, and sometimes keeps on well into November. Though an early 
autumn Pear, it ripens well without decaying at the core, a property w r hich 
too many do not possess. The tree is very hardy, and maintains a vigorous, 
though not a rampant growth. It is an excellent bearer, and succeeds well on 
the quince stock, either as a pyramid or a dwarf bush. 
This is supposed to be a seedling of Dr. Van Mons, from whom Mr. Rivers, 
of Sawbridgeworth, received it some years ago, under the name of Beurre 
Van Mons. This name ought in justice, therefore, to take the precedence of 
all others ; but, from the great confusion in which Van Mons is well known to 
have had his collection, the same designation has been applied to several other 
varieties. To preserve the identity of this variety, I have adopted the name 
placed at the head of this article. Adele de St. Denis is a name applied to it 
in France, probably by some grower who received grafts from Van Mons 
without any name at all, and distinguished only by a number, a practice in 
