NEW PEARS. CLASS II. AUTUMN. 143 



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

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

 ing in October." Valuable for extensive cultivation. 

 I/21T. DOYENNE BOUSSOCK NOUVELLE. Ja- 



min. [5*] 



New and large; of superior excellence; ripening at 

 Paris in November, according to M. Jamin, of whom I 

 received the fruit. 



85. DE RACHINdUIN. Annahs d' Horticulture. [F.] 

 The fruit is round, compressed ; the skin rough and 

 brown, like the Mons Jean ; flesh very melting, buttery, 

 sugary, and high-flavored. November and December. 

 This variety merits dissemiwation for the beauty of the 

 tree and the quality of its fruit, which grows in clusters. 

 Produced by M. Noisette. 



206. BON CHRETIEN NAPOLEON. [J. 6.] 



New, large, beurree, excellent in Nov. From France. 



* 201. DUCHESSE DE BERRI. Margat. [J.] 



New, of large size, beurree, and excellent. Much es- 

 teemed in France. Sometimes called Capucine. Sept. 

 r 202. *DUCHESSE D'ORLEANS. Oudin. 



New, large, oblong, handsome; of a golden gray color; 

 flesh beurree ; juice abundant, sugary ; flavor extra fine. 

 The tree as productive as the Williams's Bon Chretien. Oct. 

 Lately received from Normandy, and as thus described. 

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



In their attempts to raise new and improved varieties, 

 by planting the seeds only of the most perfect fruits, long 

 time the most distinguished cultivators of France im- 

 agined that thus nature might be driven, and thus only, to 

 infinite lengths. Nature, already exhausted, reacted 

 they witnessed the retrograde. But nature, and alone, 

 by a great effort, has sometimes accomplished all that man, 

 aided only by zeal and false science, had striven in vain to 

 do. Such seems to have been the case in the Duchesse 

 (TAngouUme, which was found 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 



