The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening

Every genus a Victorian gardener could grow — Abelia to Zygopetalum across four volumes, with each plant's history, species, and culture, by the Curator of Kew.

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Beurre de Jonghe

Fruit medium, handsome, regular-pyriform; eye small, open; skin golden-yellow, covered with dark orange-russet; flesh greenish, melting, highly perfumed. December. An excellent sort.

Beurre de l'Assomption. Fruit very large, pyriform, bossed; eye large and open, almost level with the surface; skin lemon-yellow-russet, with large patches of russet round the eye; flesh white, juicy, melting, and rich. A most delicious Pear, ripe in the middle of August. The tree is very fertile, and succeeds well on the Quince.

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