THE EASTER B EU R R E E PEAR.
Bergamotte de la Pentecôte. Noisette, Manuel, vol. ii.
p. 537. Hort. Soc. Cat. 73.
Beurrée d’ hiver de Bruxelles. Hort. Cat. 103. Taschen-
buch,p. 420.
Bezy Chaumontel très gros. Hort. Cat. 183.
Doyenné d’hiver, of some Collections.
Of all the very late-keeping Pears, this is decidedly
the best. I t has been recently introduced
into England from the Continent, but its origin
there is not known. In many of the foreign collections
it is confounded with the Bergamotte de
Pâques, or Easter Bergamot, — a good, but inferior
variety ; from which it is distinguishable, not only
by its fruit, but also by its wood, which is reddish
yellow, not green as th a t of the Easter Bergamot.
The Beurrée d ’hiver de Bruxelles, a kind only
described in the Taschenbuch, has proved in the
Garden of the Horticultural Society to be this ; as
has also a variety received some years since from
M. Stoffels, of Mechlin, under the name of Bezy
Chaumontel très gros. I t is probable, from this
latter circumstance, th a t the origin of this kind was
Flanders.
The P ear of this name described in the Horticultural
Transactions, vol. v. in the Appendix, by
M. Parmentier, is not here cited as a synonym.
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