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PRINCESS OF WALES PEAR. 
WITH AN ILLUSTRATION. 
Never since the time that Mr. T. A. Knight instituted his experiments 
in cross-breeding Pears, has so much success been attained in this direction 
as that what has fallen to the lot of Rev. JohnHuyshe, of Clystliydon, near 
Exeter. Mr. Knight’s object was to obtain a race of hardy varieties possess¬ 
ing high flavour, and the variety he adopted as the basis on which to work 
was the old Swan’s Egg—doubtless in its way a very estimable sort, but 
so closely did he adhere to this variety, that those he succeeded in raising 
from it, were in many instances mere repetitions of their parent, varying 
but slightly in form and flavour. 
The materials that Mr. Huy she worked with, were the general favourites, 
Marie Louise, and Hansel's Bergamot. About the year 1880 Mr. Huyshe 
fertilised the former with the pollen of the latter, and from the fruit so 
produced he obtained “three pips,” which being sown, in due time resulted 
in the three varieties now known as Huyshe’s Prince of Wales, Victoria, 
and Princess of Wales, the last of which forms the subject of our present 
illustration, from the skilful pencil of Mrs. Dix, and from fruit supplied by 
Mr. Huyshe himself. 
It is our intention to furnish in the Florist and Pomologist, ^portraits 
of the other choice and valuable varieties which Mr. Huyshe has raised, 
and of which drawings have been made by the same accomplished artist. 
Among these is one known as Prince Consort , a Pear remarkable for its size 
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