28 NEW AMERICAN ORCHARDIST. 



In the markets of fruits and legumes at Paris, as the Com- 

 missaire General has informed us in his report for 1828 

 some of these same ancient, and with us once celebrated 

 kinds, are no longer cultivated, even with them. He ex- 

 presses astonishment at the cause but the conclusion 

 seems irresistible, that with them, as with us, they are no 

 longer worthy of cultivation ; and that, out of that city, and 

 in its vicinity, the country around, these once famous 

 fruits are at this day as liable to blight, and as unworthy 

 of general cultivation, as in the neighborhood of Boston. 



The following are his words, extracted from his report : 

 " One is astonished on viewing in the markets of Paris 

 so very few melting pears. We no longer see the Sucre 

 Vert, the Sucre Musque,the Bezi de la Motte, nor the Bezi 

 d'Airy [Bezi d'Heri?]] very few Chaumontellcs, very few 

 Calotte de Suisse ; no Koyale d'Hiver, [Royal Winter,] no 

 Virgouleuse, and, what is to be deplored, no Colmars. [Some 

 of these expressions, it seems evident from what follows, 

 were designed to be understood only in a general sense. 

 K.] These three last species sell from ten sous to two 

 francs each, (about forty cents,) and their cultivation is 

 neglected! 



" The Rousselette, so perfumed, so sought after by the 

 confectioners, and distillers, is no longer of good quality. 

 How different this Rousselette from that which they culti- 

 vate at the hamlet of Cormontreuil, at the gate of Rheims ! 

 At that place they cultivate the Rousselette almost exclusive- 

 ly, and these altogether on espaliers. These espaliers offer 

 at the end of August a sight the most rich and beautiful." 

 [See Annales d' Horticulture for 1828.] 



The unwearied efforts of the most distinguished culti- 

 vators of France, during the latter ages, in their attempts 

 to raise new and valuable varieties of fruits from the seed, 

 appear to have been accompanied chiefly with disaster. 

 And M. Poiteau, in one of his reports to the Horticultural 

 Society of Paris, has asserted that the result of all their 

 labor has been " absolutely nothing." In adverting to the 

 decline of the old French varieties of pears, in the vicinity 

 of Paris, and the necessity of a renewal, he asserts that 

 they must look elsewhere for new varieties to replace the 

 old any where else but to their own country. 



He informs us that the celebrated Duhamel, during the 

 long course of his scientific career, planted the seeds of all 



