The gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement (1826)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843, A. & R. Spottiswoode, printer, United States. Patent Office. Scientific Library, former owner DSI · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green · leaf 22
pleasure-ground. I know of no species of tree that produces greater varietyof form than tl;e Pyrus communis; indeed, it would be difS-cult to imagine any form of deciduous tree that may notreadily be fo^und in some one or other of this interesting tribe.The few I shall notice in the mean time are,… … The Benvie pear (a) is extensively cultivated. The originaltree is still standing in an orchard bearing the name of Benvie,in the Carse of Gowrie, Perthshire, but is much decayed.The young trees, however, which are cultivated in almost everyorchard, show no marks of approaching dissolution, and…
