Weights Of Some Well-Known Pears

At the Chiswick Pear Congress of last autumn, Mr. Le Cornu, of Jersey, exhibited samples of Uvedales St. Germain at 1 lb. 10 oz., and of Catillac, the same. Other good weights were - a Belle Angevine, 2 lb. 3 oz.; General Todleben, 1 lb. 11 oz.; 8 Louise Bonne of Jersey, 4 1/2 lbs.; 6 Pitmas-ton Duchess, 7 lb.; and Beurre Clairgeau, 4 3/4 lbs.

Hybrid Sand Pears

The Horticultural Art Journal says that Conklin's Hybrid was obtained from seed of the Sand pear in 1856. It is of the same general appearance as the Kieffer. "Passably good, we think, better than Kieffer".

Alexander Lucas Pear

Large pears are not always good pears, but they are prized when the two qualities go together. This new pear is often 6 inches long and 15 inches round, and has a high character in Belgium.

The Largest Pears In The World

Speaking of the small islands in the English Channel, between France and England, the Gardeners Magazine says:

"Of the two islands Jersey certainly bears off the palm for a superior growth of pears, the fruit being both larger and finer flavored. Forty-five years ago, when Guernsey was exporting annually some ten thousand bushels of pears, Jersey was sending away no less than 2,000 bushels in the same period; but now Jersey takes the lead both in the matter of quantity and quality. The warmer, dryer climate of this island is more favorable to the culture of this fruit. The Chaumontel is, indeed, brought to such perfection in no other part of the world. The same pear in France is not to be mentioned on the same day, and the grafts introduced into England {from time to time do not retain the superiority for which the Jersey produce is so famed.

"With respect to the extraordinary size sometimes attained by this pear, Guernsey stands higher than Jersey, for a fruit grown at Laporte in that island, in 1849, measured 6 1/2 in. in length, 14 1/2 in. in girth, and weighed no less than 38 ounces. Jersey does not appear to have produced any pear weighing more than 30 ounces. Professor Ansted tells of a group of pears from a single tree of which, he says, ' there is, perhaps, no more remarkable instance recorded.' It occurred in the season of 1861, when of five fruits obtained from one tree in the gardens of Mr. Marquand, of Bailiff's Cross, Guernsey, four of them weighed together seven and a-half pounds. It is worthy of remark that in this case the tree, though usually prolific, bore only these five fruits. The pears in question weighed respectively 32 1/2, 33, 3 1/2 and 21 ounces".