TH E B EU R R É D IE L PEA R .
Beurré Diel. Hort. Soc. Fruit Cat. no. 95, p . 159.
Diel’s Butterbirne. DieVs versuch einer systematisch, beschreib.
in Deutsch. Vorhand. Kernobst, vol. x ix .p . 70.
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This noble P e a r was> raised by Dr. Van Mons
a t Louvain, and by him named in honour of Dr.
Augustus Frederick Adrian Diel, one of the most
distinguished of the German Pomologists. Its great
merit, independently of its excellence, is its fertility,
both when trained on a wall and as a standard. In
the former case, it will succeed perfectly on an
eastern aspect.
Its period of maturity is the end of November,
and it keeps well till the beginning of January. I t
is of the first rank among dessert Pears.
The tree is a free grower, and acquires considerable
size.
Wood long, strong, flexuose, olive-green, with
a few scattered oval spots of an ash colour; at the
ends covered with down ; when old, becoming light
gray.
Leaves large, either roundish or broadly cordate,
smooth.
F r u it about the size and figure of the Summer
Bonchretien, without the protuberances of th a t
I Itiil mm
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