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in the University of Louvain. He continued his ex- 

 periments at Brussels, having at this time in his nur- 

 sery nearly eighty thousand pears raised from the 

 seed, some of which, being of the sixth generation, 

 produced delicious fruit. A few years subsequent, 

 in 1819, when in the enjoyment of success and the 

 generous pleasure of dispensing the best varieties of 

 fruit, which he also did without remuneration, the au- 

 thorities decided that the spot occupied by him as a 

 nursery was necessary for streets. With the fate of 

 a martyr, though with the hope of a philosopher, he 

 was obliged to relinquish the seat of his labors, and 

 transport what could be saved in the nursery to Lou- 

 vain, and having arduous duties to discharge in his 

 capacity as professor and unable to give his personal 

 attention his losses were very great. At Louvain he 

 occupied a piece of land belonging to the city. Here 

 he was again gratified in having his labors succeed. 

 He replaced his losses, and giving the seed into the 

 hand of nature waited patiently for the development. 

 But in 1831, at the siege of Antwerp, though Brus- 

 sels was somewhat distant, yet his nursery was the 

 spot of ground selected upon which to build ovens to 

 bake bread for the soldiers, and a great part of his 

 nursery was consequently destroyed. But hiring 

 another piece of ground he thither transported his 

 trees of the seventh, eighth and ninth generations, and 

 consoled himself by saving in scions, some of the 

 remaining fruits. Thus the sun again shone upon 

 him, till in 1834 his nursery was decided upon as the 

 only proper point for the establishment of a gas house 

 for lighting the city — and, says M. Poiteau with some 



