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BRITISH POMOLOGY, ETC. 



Lindley, wlio introduced it to the notice of the London Horticultural 

 Society. In the " Guide to the Orchard," it is stated that the Aphis 

 Lanigera or " Meally Bug," so destructive to most of our old orchard 

 trees, seems to be set at defiance by the Majetin. "An old tree now 

 growing in a garden belonging to Mr. William Youngman, of Norwich, 

 which had been grafted about three feet high in the stem, has been for 

 many years attacked by this insect below the grafted part, but never 

 above it ; the limbs and branches being to this day perfectly free, 

 although all the other trees in the same garden have been infested more 

 or less with it." 



The tree is a most abundant bearer. 



392. WINTER PEARMAIN.— Ger. 



Identification. — Ger. Herb. Aust. Treat. 54. Rail. Hist. ii. 1448. Lang Pom. 

 1.34. t. Ixxviii. f. 4. Gibs. Fr. Gard. 356. Fors. Treat. 130. Lind. Guide, 84. 

 Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, n. 563. Bog. Fr. Cult,- 76. 



Synonymes. — Great Pearmaine, Park. Par. 587. Pearmain. Evelyn Pom. 65. 

 Peare-maine, Husb. Fr. Orch. Old Pearmam, Pom. Heref. t. 29. Parmain d'Hiver, 

 Knoop. Pom. 64. t. xi. Pepin Parmain d'Hiver, Ibid. 131. Pepin Parmain 

 d' Angleterre, Ibid. Grauwe of Blanke Pepping Van Der Laan, Ibid. Pereraenes 

 Ibid. Zeeuwsche Pepping, Ibid. Duck's Bill, in some parts of Sussex. Drue 

 Permein d' Angleterre, Quint. Inst. 202. 



Figures. — Pom. Heref. t. 29. Ron. Pyr. Mai. pi. xxii. f. 2. 

 Fruit, large, three inches and a quarter wide, and about the same in 



height ; of a true pearmain shape, somewhat five sided towards the 

 crown. Skin, smooth and shining, at first of a greenish-yellow, marked 



