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THE BEURRÉ DIEL PEAR. (From a Standard.)
Dorothée Royale. Van Mons. Cat. p . 25.
Beurré Royale . . '
Poire de Melon t o f various Collections.
Beurré de Y e lle .. ^
As we consider this one of the most important
Pears in cultivation, we have thought it right to give
a figure of the fruit from a standard, in addition to
that from a wall, already represented at folio 19
of this Work ; for they are so extremely different in
appearance as to render it improbable that the
identity of the two would be discovered without
being thus pointed out. The various synonyms now
added above have been traced with much sagacity
by Mr. Thompson, from an examination of trees in
the Garden of the Horticultural Society, in the
course of the last productive Pear season. It is
probable that more names yet remain, for it appears
to be a universal practice among cultivators to have
each his own mode of naming every first-rate fruit—
a most pernicious practice, which cannot be too
strongly condemned.
T o the encomiums passed in the first volume of
this Work upon the Beurré Diel, we can now add,
not only that it bears most freely as a standard, but
that its fruit retains its good qualities in as high a
degree when so produced as when grown upon a
wall. It succeeds well upon a Quince stock.
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