August 21. 
COUNTRY GENTLEMAN’S COMPANION. 
WEEKLY CALENDAR. 
363 
D 
M 
D 
W 
AUGUST 21 — 27 , 1855. 
Weather ni 
Barometer. 
ias London in 
Thermo. Wind. 
1853. 
Rain in 
Inches. 
Sun 
Rises. 
Sun 
Sets. 
Moon 
R. & S. 
Moon’s 
Age. 
Clock 
bf. Sun. 
Day of 
Year. ’ 
21 
Tu 
Sun’s declinat., 12° 14' N. 
29.824—29.765 
70—50 ; S. 
56 a 4 
10 a 7 
10 12 
9 
3 
3 
233 
22 
W 
Green-veined White. 
30.013—29.865 
71—41 | W. 
— 
57 
8 
10 52 
10 
2 
49 
234 
23 
Tu 
Wood White. 
30.108—30.000 
67—57 ; S.W. 
08 
59 
6 
11 51 
11 
2 
33 
235 
24 
F 
St. Bartholomew. 
29.996-29.935 
72—47 I w. 
_ 
V 
4 
morn. 
12 
2 
18 
236 
25 
3 
White bordered. 
30.266—30.158 
70-39 N.W. 
— 
0 
2 
1 10 
13 
2 
2 
23 7 
26 
Son 
12 Sunday after Trinity. 
30.361—30.330 
76-51 I N. 
— 
4 
0 
2 40 
14 
1 
45 
238 
27 
M 
[Pr. Albert b. 1819. 
30.393—30.395 
79-63 N.W. 
— 
6 
VI 
rises. 
© 
1 
29 
239 
Meteorology of the WEEK.—AtChiswick, from observations during the last twenty-eight years, the average highest and lowest tern- 
peratures of these (lays are 71.4 , and 49 . 9 0 , respectively. The greatest heat, 88 °, occurred on the 21st, in 1835 ; and the lowest cold, 32° 
on the 21st, in 2850. During the period 114 days were fine, and on 82 rain fell. 
THE FRUITS AND FRUIT TREES OF GREAT 
BRITAIN. 
no. ur. 
THE WINDSOR PEAR. 
Identification.— Park. Par. 502. Miller Diet. n. 7. Fors. 
Treat. 151. Lind. Guide 350. Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3. 
439. 
Synonymes. —La Vindsor Quint. Tnst. 109. Bellissime, 
Merlet Abrege; Dahuron Traite, 97. Supreme, Merlet 
Abrege. Figue Musquee, Acc. Merlet et Dahuron. 
Grosse Jargonelle, Acc. Merlet. Poire de Bruxelles, 
Knoop. Pom. 79. Poire Madame, Ibid. t. 1. Madame 
de France, Ibid. Belle d’Aout, Ibid. Poire de Figue, 
Ibid. Mouille-bouche d’ete, Ibid. Konge, Acc. Hart. 
Soc. Cal. Briisseler Birne, Diel ICernobst. xxi. 218. 
Franz-Madame, Sickler Obstgart. iv. 35. Cuisse 
Madame, of some collections , but not of Duhamel. 
Summer Bell, of American Orchards. Bell-tongue, of 
the Tweedside Orchards. Green Windsor, in some 
districts. 
Figures. —Knoop Pom. t. 1. Lang. Pom. pi. Ixi. f. 2. 
Sickler Obstgart. iv. t. 3. 
In our series of papers on the Fruits and Fruit-trees of 
Great Britain, it is not our intention to treat merely on 
the varieties which are new or little known, but to in¬ 
clude those, also, however old they may be, or however 
often they may have been described, of which we can 
communicate any new facts or information as regards 
their synonymes, history, or cultivation. It is for this 
reason that we have selected for this week’s subject a 
variety which is almost universally known, there being 
few gardens in England where it is not, or has not been, 
and where even yet, notwithstanding the many new 
accessions, it is entitled to occupy an honourable place. 
Common and familiar as it is to many, and often as it 
has been described, we question if its history has ever 
been written, or if it has, it has never been our fortune 
to meet with it. 
The fruit is large and handsome, of a long pyriform 
shape; its greatest width is at about two-thirds towards 
the eye, whence it forms half of a ball round the apex 
and tapers gradually toward the stalk. The skin is smooth 
and tender, of a bright green colour at first, but as it is 
ripening, it gradually assumes a yellowish tint, with a 
mixture of green, and with a faint orange tinge, and 
obscure streaks of red on the side next the sun; the 
whole surface is marked with greenish specks. The 
eye is not at all sunk, but even with the surface, wide 
open, and with a stout erect calyx. The stalk is 
an inch-and-a-half long, curved, inserted on the 
summit of the fruit without any cavity, and generally 
surrounded with fleshy swellings at the base. The 
flesh, when the fruit is eaten just at it is becoming 
yellow at the stalk, is white, tender, buttery, and melt¬ 
ing, with an agreeable and pleasant flavour, but if 
allowed to hang till “ dead ripe,” it is dry and meally. j 
It ripens in the middle of August. To have the fruit j 
in perfection, it ought to be gathered immediately when : 
it is observed to be changing from the green to the ! 
yellow tint, otherwise it will be worthless. 
The tree is one of the strongest growers of any 
v-U* iety in cultivation; particularly in itslearly growth, 
No. CCCLX. Vox. XIV. 
