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DOMESTIC NOTICES. 



Mr. Atwater has several more seedlings, —- 

 one a black cherry, of which he thinks highly; but 

 I have not seen it in perfection. Prof, Kiktland 

 has also several others that promise well, but for 

 two ca.uses will not, at present, be brought for- 

 ward. The principal one of which, is a wish that 

 those already brought out may become tested in 

 various sections of the country, when, if they 

 prove as Valuable abroad as at home, the public 

 will have more confidence to receive what yet re» 

 mains unnoticed, Yours, F. R. Elliott. Cleve- 

 land, Ohio, September, 1849. 



[We owe the following notes and translations, 

 from some standard German pomological works 

 in our collection, to our neighbor, J. W. Knevels, 

 Esq. They will serve to give our pomological 

 readers an idea of the minute precision of the best 

 German writers. Ed.] 



PoaioLOGicAL Notes.— A. J. Downing, Esq.-~ 

 Dear Sir: The pear we term Beurre Bosc, is 

 described in the " Kemobstsorten des Sudlichen 

 Deutschlandes" under the title of Bose's Early 

 Gourdshaped Pear, (Bose's Friihzertige Flasch- 

 enbirne.) with the synonym. Calebasse passe Bose ; 

 the final letter in the proper name being an e, 

 not a c. We should, therefore, read and say-— not 

 Beurre Bosc, but Bose's Beurre. It is ranked as 

 first rate. 



The name Glout Moreeau, is not applied in this 

 work to the fruit thus distinguished by us ; but is 

 described as Hardenpont's Late Winter Beurre, 

 (Hardenpont's Spate Winter Butterbirne,) with 

 the synonyms, "Beurre d'Hardenpont" and - 'Har- 

 denpont d'Hiver." The synonym Kronprinz Fer- 

 dinand von Oestreich, applied by the London Hor- 

 ticultural Soc. Catalogue to the Glout Moreeau, 

 appears erroneous; as it is described in this work 

 as a distinct fruit, in the following terms: 



79. " Kronprinz Ferdinand von Oestreich," 

 (Crown Prince F, of Austria.) Diel xxii. p. 217. 

 A large, handsome, choice, and truly delicious 

 winter pear; having a resemblance, shape, and 

 size to a Summer Bon Chretien; often, also, to a 

 longish Chaumontel. On dwarfs, the fruit is 3 

 inches in breadth by 3 4 in height. On standards, 

 2\ broad by 2| high. 



The form is longish, eggshaped. The swell is 

 generally in the middle; often, however, more 

 towards the eye, where it tapers off and forms a 

 flat, upon which the pear can stand. The eye is 

 open, short leaved, placed in a more or less con- 

 siderable depression ; sometimes the depression is 

 very deep, around which are various swellings, 

 which, especially in large specimens, show them- 

 selves all over the fruit. The stem, from one- 

 half to an inch long, is thick, and stands in a 

 cavity surrounded with swellings and covered 

 with rust. 



The colour of its rough, but not at all greasy 

 skin, is, when taken from the tree, a bright green, 

 becoming, as it ripens, first a yellowish green, and 



finally a bright yellow; at which period, however, 

 no redness is observable. 



The dots are indeed numerous, but very fine ; 

 and not conspicuous. This is accompanied, in 

 many fruits, with cinnamon coloured blotches 

 round the eye and insertion of the stem. The 

 fruit is without perfume, or with a .slight one 

 when dead ripe. 



The flesh is clear white, very juicy, buttery 

 and melting, with a high, sweet, sugary Musca- 

 telle flavor, resembling a mingling of the taste of 

 an Autumn Bergamot and Crassane. 



The core is roomy and longish, but not very 

 large. The cells are long, conchoidal (muschel 

 formig,) pretty roomy, containing only a few very 

 long black seeds. It ripens in December, lasting 

 till March. The tree requires good cultivated 

 soil, a protected site, and thrives peculiarly well 

 as a dwarf, grafted on quince. As a standard, it 

 grows fast, and soon bears abundantly; for which 

 reason it does not become a large or spreading 

 tree. 



This pear is at present only found in choice 

 gardens, and does not appear generally known, 

 as we have never seen the fruit at public exhibi- 

 tions. It is a choice winter pear, of the very 

 first ra,nk, which should not be plucked too soon, 

 if it is to attain its perfect excellence, and is to 

 be recommended to every garden proprietor." 



Under the head, Red Magnum Bonum, in your 

 work, as well as in the London Hort. Society's 

 Catalogue, three names of plums are arranged as 

 being identical, which, in Liegel's work on Plums, 

 are separated and made distinct varieties. The 

 " Red Egg Plum," the " Imperiale Rouge," and 

 the " Imperiale Violette." That you may take the 

 ease into consideration, and determine whether 

 they ought to remain confounded, I will subjoin 

 Liegel's description of the three at full length. 



Die Rothe Kaiserpflaume — Imperiale Rouge. 

 Young twigs, straight, almost naked germs, eyes 

 distant, pointing outwards; (that is, not setting 

 close — standing off;) flowers generally single ; 

 leaves long, ovate, acuminate, sometimes lance- 

 shaped, — upper surface smooth, — under having 

 coarsely, deeply and doubly serrated petioles, long, 

 upper side pubescent. Fruit very large, invert- 

 edly eggshaped, occasionally oval, of a red blue; 

 stem long, pubescent; free stone; pit, lancet, and 

 invertedly eggshaped below, long above, blunt 

 pointed. The tree grows large, and throws out 

 its main branches in acute angles with much spray ; 

 but yet not thickly leaved, as the leaf buds stand 

 far apart. In this way, as well as by its dark- 

 green, narrow, long, drooping leaves, the tree 

 distinguishes itself. Bears freely every year, but 

 never in great clusters — sometimes in pairs; blos- 

 soms early, long before it is in leaf, which open 

 late; rather tender as to cold; capital for forcing. 



I have several times raised it from the pit, 

 genuine, as is also stated by Gumbroole and Bork- 

 hause. 



The summer shoots are straight, middling thick, 



