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bore in 1819, and, the year before, the gardener had ordered it cut down, and only 

 changed his mind after it had received several blows with the axe. The Urbauiste 

 was raised by the Comte Colonia, in ItSS. 



" Beurre Diel was found on a farm, near Brussels. Doyenne Boussock is an 

 old Belgian sort, called 'Double Philippe,' 'Beurre de Merode,' etc., origin not 

 known. 



"Belle Lucrative was one of Esperin's seedlings, one of the first and best ; he 

 called it Seigneur, the French renamed it. His method was, I believe, to sow the 

 seeds of good pears. 



" Beurre Capiamont was raised at Mons, in HSt. 



" Winter Nelis, at Malines, some seventy or eighty years ago, and called Bonne 

 de Maline ; Van Mons Leon le Clere, was raised from the seed by Leon le Clere ; the 

 seeds sown were said to be Easter Beurre, Beurre d'Aremberg, and St. Germain. 



" Beurre d'Aremberg w^as a chance seedling, at Enghein. 



" Easter Beurre, known as Pastorale, Bergamotte de la Pentacole, Doyenne 

 d'Hiver, etc., was found at Lourain, in an old garden of the Capucins — the original 

 tree was standing in 1825. 



" Glout Morceau, by M. Hardenpont, in 1789, and called to this day 'Beurre 

 Hardenpont.' Napoleon, at Mons, in 1808. Beurre Superfin, by Goubault ; 

 Beurre Clairgeau, by a man named Clairgeau, at Nantes, in 1850 or 1851 ; so we 

 might proceed with Beurre GifiPard, B. Goubault, Beurre Gris de Hiver, B. Lan- 

 gelier, Triomphe de Jodoigne, Jalousie Fontenay Vardee, Epine Dumas, Rostizier, 

 Yicar of Winkefield, and, indeed, all the leading foreign varieties in our catalogues. 

 B. Bosc, Beurre d'Anjou, and Doyenne d'Ete, are said to be seedlings of Yan Mons, 

 but the facts concerning their origin are not very clear ; so that, although the 

 world is greatly indebted to Van Mons for his devotion, through long years, to 

 what he regarded as the regeneration of fruits, upon philosophical principles, yet 

 his seedlings, so far, have not yielded any great treasure. The Belle Lucrative, 

 of Esperin, is perhaps the finest pear, all in all, produced in the last century. 

 Esperin, in it, left a noble monument to his memory, and his seedlings have pro- 

 duced many other fine fruits. At his death, he placed them in the hands of his 

 friend, Mr. Berckmans, who has them now planted in Nev/ Jersey, and we are in 

 hopes to hear from them in a few years. 



" Knight's attempted improvement in England, by hylridization, but produced 

 only a few good fruits. His pears, with the exception of Dunmore, which I have 

 already mentioned, are of no value in this country. He gained the Black Eagle, 

 Elton, and a few other good cherries. Dr. Brinckle, of Philadelphia, has attempted 

 the same thing in this country, and has already a large number of very promising 

 seedlings in the hands of Mr. Berckmans, for trial. They are all grafted in strong 

 stocks, and will soon bear. 



"The learned doctor has great faith in this method. He believes it to be as 

 certain to raise a good new fruit by crossing two good ones, as it is to raise a good 

 animal on the same principle. The art of hybridization of fruits, however, is a 

 very nice one, and requires time, labor, and precaution, that few people can or 

 will undertake and execute with accuracy. 



" In this country, as in Europe, our new fruits have either sprung up by acci- 

 dent, or have been produced from the sowing of the seeds of good varieties. 

 Thus we obtained nearly all our peaches, all our hardy grapes, most of our best 

 plums and apples. Of pears we have already a noble list ; all of them either 

 picked up wild in hedges, or from the seeds of good pears. 



The whole of Europe has not produced a pear so fine as the Seckel 

 hich succeeds over a wider territory ; and then we have the Brandy 



