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FOREIGN NOTICES. 



New French Pears. — The city of Angers, as- 

 sociated with so many things in horticulture, has just 

 enriched our fruit garden with several new pears, 

 which the horticultural committee of that city have 

 classed in the first rank of good fiuits. Three of 

 these novelties, are the result of the zeal and en- 

 lightened perseverance ol M. Goubault, gardener 

 at Angers, and the Comice Horticole, has. to 

 mark its appreciation of these results, decreed him 

 a gold medal. The following is the description of 

 the three new varieties of pears, originated by M. 

 GoUBAUjLT. as given by M. Babtiste Despertes, 

 member of the Societe Industrielle d' dingers. 



Beurre Goubault. — Size that of the i?e/Ze <fe 

 Bruxelles; skin of a greenish yellow, marked with 

 dots; eye open, but little depressed; stalk rather 

 slender and long, (longue de 0'° 06. a' 0'") flesh fine 

 grained, buttery, perfumed, slightly coarse-grained 

 towards the core, of very good flavor. It ripens in 

 the first half of September. 



Doyenne Goubault. — Size larger than that of 

 Doyenne d' Hiver; flesh melting, perfumed, flavor 

 exquisite; colour yellow, marked with gray dots. It 

 commences to ripen in November, and will keep till 

 April. This is a most excellent fruit of the first 

 quality, which is destined to have a place in all fruit 

 gardens. 



Beurre Superfine. — Fruit a little elongated, 

 nearly 4 inches high, and 24 in its w-idest diam- 

 eter, and more or less angular or irregular 

 {tourinentr.) in its outline, especially towards the 

 stalk, which is thick and swollen at its base, and 

 rather short, (longue de 0"'. 03;) skin yellowish 

 gray, becoming yellow at maturity, when it is 

 more or less covered with reddish dots, and lines 

 forming a kind of net work. The sunny side is mar- 

 ked with some red spots. Flesh fine-grained, but- 

 tery, full of juice, highly perfumed and excellent; 

 ripe at the end of September. Tliis, like the two 

 first, is a fruit of the first quality. Revue Horti- 

 cole. 



[Col. Wilder has just sent us a tree of each of 

 the foregoing new varieties, which, as usual, he has 

 been among the first to introduce into the United 

 States. — Ed.] 



American Grapes in Germany. — The Isabella 

 grape is attracting some attention in the interior of 

 Europe. Our friend and correspondent, M. Otto, di- 

 rector of the Royal Botanic Garden of Berlin, we un- 

 derstand first introduced it to the notice of German 

 horticulturists, as a climbing plant, superior to al- 

 most every other, for purposes where luxuriance and 



rapidity of growth are desirable, such as covering 

 bmldings, walks and arbors. The Hevue Horticole 

 gives an extract from a horticultural journal, pub- 

 lished at Zurich, also loudly praising this native 

 grape. We translate a paragraph or two: 



" The shoots of the Isabella Vine orow ordinarily 

 in a smgle season, from 9 to 18 feet,°and its leaves 

 when well developed, measure 9 or 10 inches lono- 

 and still more in breadth. They are of a fine careen 

 on the upper surface, and on the lower surface 

 are covered with a white felt of fine nap, which adds 

 singularly to the effect produced by them, when 

 growing in masses, and put in motion by the wind. 



No plant can be better than this for the decora- 

 tion ot parterres, for climbing trees, coverino- ar- 

 bors or unsightly garden walls, and it is the more 

 suitable lor this, from the rapidity of its growth 

 and the grandeur of its leaves." 



The writer goes on also to say, that it bears, as com- 

 pared with European vines, enormous crops of fruit 

 He thinks though this fruit would not alone make 

 a wine of much strength, yet it may be valuable for 

 mixing with other grapes to communicate to the 

 wine Its peculiar aroma. This peculiar aroma, 

 he says, prevents all the world from finding it agree- 

 able as a table grape, though many persoifs are^'fond 

 01 it. 



Reine Claude de Bavay Plum. — When in 

 Brussels, some two years since, I visited the nurserv 

 of Bavay, at Vilvordc, near that city. Among seve'- 

 ral new fruits, I found the new Plwn Reine Claudede 

 Bavay, ol which he kindly presented me with a col- 

 ored engraving, which I send herewith. (We "{we 

 an outline, figure 115.) This plum was prodifced 

 from the seed of the old Reinc Claude, by a Belgian 

 g-entleinan named Esporin; and I translate Imm 

 the Revue Horticole, the following description, 

 vyhich IS much more detailed than any I could pos- 

 sibly give from recollection: 



'' Although this plum has been already figured in 

 several works on horticulture, we may be allowed 

 to enlighten amateurs respecting its characters, 

 alter having seen its fruit produced by a tree, for 

 which we are indebted to the kindness of Messieurs 

 Jamin and Durand. 



''This plum is more oviform than round;" it is lon- 

 gitudinally marked by little violet coloured veins on 

 a yellowish ground, sometimes accompanied by lit- 

 tle spots of the same colour, and covered with a 

 waxlike and scarcely ap|)arent bloom. Its flesh 

 adheres slightly to the stone; the habit of the tree ig 

 similar to that of the old Reine Claude {green gage;\ 



