We present tlie readers of the Horticulturist with outlines of some new French 

 I*ears with high-sounding names, from a valued correspondent in Belgium ; but 

 we do so witli a caution attached. It may save our friends from imposition. 



No. 1, General de Lourmel. — Large, round ; dark green, spotted and xoaved 

 with dull red and brown. Seedling, 1847 ; produced in 1853 — good quality. No- 

 vember. Cornice of Angers. 



No. 2, Gemral Bosquet (Flon grollcau). — Light green ; slightly spotted with 

 red. End of September. Second quality. Seedling, 1845 ; production 1853. 



No. 3, Marechal Pellisier (Flon, Aine). — Light, olive green, with dull red on 

 the sunny side. End of September. Second quality. Sown in 1845 ; produced 

 in 1853. 



No. 4, Lieutenant Poidevin. — Yellowish-green, spotted with red and brown. 

 Seedling of 1845 ; productive in 1853. Second quality. March to April. (Per- 

 haps the most valuable, being late.) (Flon grolleau.) How pears of second, and 

 ovAy good quality in September, when we are in the enjoyment of a host of delicious 

 pears, can be admitted in catalogues on the faith of their high-sounding names, 

 and large sizes, seems to us somewhat surprising. They are nearly all very new, 

 and of course will be unsteady till their standard value be settled or sealed by some 

 years of cultivation. It is possible that some may improve in quality ; but our 

 experience with foreign pears has made us acquainted with a circumstance which 

 leaves us little hope of such a result. Pears of second quality, or deficient in high, 

 juicy, buttery, and sugary characters, in their native transatlantic countries, are 

 uniformly of third quality in this climate; while rich and generous fruits, as the 

 Lucrative, Flemish Beauty, BeurrdB'AnJou, &c. &c., are perhaps better, or, at least, 

 as delicate and rich here as in England or Belgium — as good as in the South of 

 France. 



