38 PEARS. 



very near together. The seeds are very dark brown, the fruit 

 ripens at the end of August or beginning of September, and 

 the crops produced by trees of this kind are generally very 

 great. 



This has been supposed by some persons to be the same as 

 the Poire iPamour, but the diflerences \\\\\ be perceived by re- 

 ferring to the description of that fruit. 



SUMMER ROSE. Pom. mag. Pr. cat. 



Epine rose. Roz. Duh. Pr. cat. 25 ed 



Pore de rose. Quin Roz syn Duh. syn. Mil. 



Rosenbirne Kraft. Pom Austr. 



Tlw rose pear Evel. Mil. 



Epine rose d'^U, > 



Poire (Vein rose, J 



Caillot ros If, f of various publications and coUec- 



Poire d'ognon, ^ tions. 



Poire tulipee \ 



Poire de Malihe, ^ 



Ros', Epmero.se. Mil For. 



Thorny rose Mil. 



EpiiK d'^M, } of some collections according to the 



Cwlleau Rosat, ) Pom. Mag. 



I extract the following descriptive remarks in relation to 

 this very valuable early pear, which I introduced a few years 

 since to this country, from the Pomological IVlagazine. Of 

 the synonymes enumerated, six are according to the Magazine 

 referred to, and the other eight I have added myself 



" The French gardeners have a class of pears which they 

 call Cailleaux, in consequence of the resemblance their speck- 

 led appearance gives them to the caille, or quail. To this 

 class belongs the subject of the present article, which is even 

 as Duhamel informs us, sometimes railed the Cail eau Rosat, 

 a name however which belongs of right to another variety, 

 ripening in the end of September. 



" There is no doubt about the synonymes above quoted, but 

 it is necessary to remark that this is not the Epine Rose or 

 Rosendorne of Maver's Pomona Franconica, t. 22, which 



