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siou of a visit of His Royal Highness the Duke of 

 Cumberland to the late Van Mons at Louvain, in the 

 year 1833 or 1834. 

 82'. Beurre Tuerlinckx. (Tuerlinckx of Mechlin, 1846. Grosse 



Calebasse.) 

 84'. Beurre de Wetteren. (Collection Espereu.) 



100'. Bon Chistave. (Collection Esperen.) 



110'. Bouvier Bourgmestre. (Bouvier, a pupil of the late Dr. 

 Van Mons.) 



127*. Calebasse Tougard. (Collection Van Mons.) 



153'. Choix d' Amateur, read Choixd'un Amateur. (Van Mons.) 



151. Cohnar, Autumn [Syn. De Bavayj. (Van Mons.) 



162'. Comte de Flandres. (Van Mons.) 



1 62'. Conseiller de la Cour, (Van Mons.) Probably synonymous 

 with Marechal de Cour, Poire Demanch, &c. 



179'. Delices de Charneau. Doubtless Fondante de Charneux, 

 or Merveille de Charneux, discovered about fifty years 

 ago by M, Legipont in his garden at Charneux, province 

 of Liege. The variety is not vigorous. The original 

 seedling tree still exists at the above-mentioned place. 



179'. Delices de Chaumont. This is doubtless Surpasse Chau- 

 mont, Trouve a la Cure ; I should say it was found in 

 the garden of the Curate at the village of Chaumont. 



181'. Delices de Jodoigne. (Bouvier.) 



183'. Deux Sceurs. (Esperen.) Des deux Soeurs. 



198'. Doijen Dillen. (Van Mons.) 



198 . Doyenne Crotte. (Van Mons.) A delicious fruit, but, 

 owing to the weakness of the tree, it is not worthy of 

 cultivation. 



1981 Doyenne d' Ete. (Van Mons.) 



205*. Due de Nemours. (Van Mons.) 



216', Eliza d' Heyst. (Esperen.) The name, Eliza, is that of 

 the wife of Berckmans, Esperen's successor, now in the 

 United States. 



231^. Fondante de Malines. (Esperen.) 



23 P. Fondante de Millot, Mont Parisette. Should have been 

 written Fondante Paniselle ; this variety was obtained 

 by D'Hardenpont, in his garden at Mont Paniselle 

 (Cellarium Panis), where there was formerly a church, 

 dedicated to the heathen god Pan. 



228. Flemish Beauty (of the English). This variety was found 

 at Heure, a village in East Flanders. It is generally 



