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good size, oblong form, yellow color, with a remarkably 

 short stalk ; tolerable for the table, and excellent for cook- 

 ing in October." A valuable and profitable variety for 

 extensive cultivation. 



84. DOYENNE SANTELETTE. Lindley. Thomp. 

 A new, fine, handsome pear, raised by Van Mons. Mid- 

 dle-sized, pyramidally oblong, narrow at the crown ; pale 

 green, thinly russeted ; flesh white, a little gritty ; juice 

 saccharine, with a slight musky perfume. October. [Sep- 

 tember ?] 



85. DE RACHINQUIN. Annales tf Horticulture. [F.] 

 Vol. ix. No. 22, of the N. E. Farmer, inserted by 

 the Hon. H. A. S. Dearborn. 



" The fruit is round, compressed ; the skin rough and 

 brown like that of the Mons Jean ; flesh very melting, but- 

 tery and sugary, and high-flavored. November and De- 

 cember. This variety merits dissemination for the beauty 

 of the tree and the quality of its fruit. It grows in clus- 

 ters, and was produced by M. Noisette. 



86. *DUCHESSE D'ANGOULEME. [F.] Pom. Mag. 



Hort. Trans., and various authorities. 

 ANGOCLEME, DUCHESS OF ANGOULEME. 

 I have already, in another place, detailed the mode 

 practised by the most distinguished cultivators of France 

 during the last ages, in their attempts to raise improved 

 varieties of fruit from the seed, and the disastrous results. 

 By planting only the seeds of the very best fruits, they 

 seem to have indulged the expectation that nature might 

 thus be driven to infinite lengths. Nature, already ex- 

 hausted, seems to have reacted they witnessed a retro- 

 grade. But nature alone, by a great effort, has sometimes 

 accomplished, in that country, all that man, by misguided 

 zeal and false science, had vainly attempted. Such ap- 

 pears to have been the case in the Duchesse d 1 Angouleme, 

 said to have been discovered growing wild in a hedge of 

 the Forest of Armaille, near Angers, in the department of 

 Maine and Loire. It was there found in July, 1815, on 

 the return of the Bourbons the second time to France. 

 Hence its name. "A pear of first-rate excellence, the 

 finest of the late autumn pears. It is not less remarkable 

 and distinct from others in its appearance, in its irregular, 

 knobby surface. It arrives at a weight very unusual in 



