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received it from Vilmorin, of Paris. Mr. Kenrick very briefly- 

 noticed it in his Orchardist, 3d Ed. for 1S41, as having been 

 one among several new pears recommended to him as worthy 

 of cultivation by M. Jamin, of Paris; and it proves to be a 

 most excellent variety. Since the notice of it above referred 



Fig' 21. Jalousie de Fontenay Vendee Pear. 



to, when it first fruited in this country in the Pomological 

 Garden, it has been introduced into many collections, and 

 handsome specimens of the fruit have repeatedly been exhib- 

 ited ; the finest of which, that we have seen, came from the 

 Hon. J. S. Cabot, of Salem, and our drawing represents one 



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