210 Pomological Notices. 



rently some ten or twelve years old, was loaded with fine 

 fruit, 



Soldat (F Esjoeren^ or Soldai Laboureur (Esperen.) — Fruit, 

 large and turbinated, only half-melting, but high-flavored and 

 excellent ; season, from January to February ; tree very robust, 

 and a great bearer. I was much delighted with the beauty 

 of the parent tree of this variety ; it formed a handsome pyr- 

 amid, on which its large fruit hung at regular distances, 

 almost as if placed there by the hand of the cultivator. 



Suzette de Bavay (Esperen.) — Fruit of medium size, knobby 

 and irregular in shape, something like the Ne plus Meuris ; 

 flesh melting, high-flavored, and excellent ; season, from March 

 to May ; a pear of the highest excellence ; tree very vigorous 

 and very fertile. This variety, in particular, deserves a place 

 in every collection. 



Triomjihe de Jodoigne. — This pear was raised a short time 

 since by M. Bouvier, (since deceased,) a great pear amateur 

 at Jodoigne, in Belgium ; it is one of the very largest of our 

 melting pears, as large, or even larger, than the Beurre Diel : 

 flesh, melting and excellent, without the musky flavor pecu- 

 liar to that variety; season, December; tree astonishingly vig- 

 orous and robust. 



Beurre gris d^Hiver nouveau. — In shape, much like the 

 Easter Beurre, and equal to it in size. This is a most abun- 

 dant bearer, as a pyramid on the quince, flesh meltmg and 

 high-flavored, and ripens from the end of December to the end 

 of January, or later. 



Crassane d'' liiver (Brunont or Bruneau.) — This is far supe- 

 rior to the Winter Crassane of the late Mr. Knight, both in 

 size and flavor, being a melting pear of first-rate quality; it 

 bears freely as a pyramid on the quince, ripening in January 

 and February, and, in some seasons, will keep till March." 



Cherries. 



Many new varieties of cherries have recently been intro- 

 duced into foreign catalogues, and a few of them are thus 

 noticed by Mr. Rivers. 



" Bigarreau de Hildersheim,. — I ate the fruit of this variety, 

 preserved under muslin, September 10; its flesh was firm, 



