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worth having will come back ia like manner. Not the 

 least among the evils resulting from the prevalence of 

 Knight's doctrine has been the multiplication of new names 

 and the confusion worse confounded of endlessly multiplied 

 synon5'^ms. We have had under cultivation, for in- 

 stance, the " Williams's Bouchretien " for many years, 

 and always esteemed it highly ; but were unable to iden- 

 tify the " Bartlett " as the same fruit until quite recently. 

 We prefer the original name, and in all similar cases we 

 think it advisable to " inquire for the old paths and walk 

 therein." Much has been effected in this respect, particu- 

 larly with pears, by the cultivators and amateurs in the 

 neighborhood of Boston. They are entitled to great credit 

 and will, we trust, persevere until the pomological world 

 has something like a correct nomenclature for this sadly 

 treated class of fruits. 



No. 164. New York Virgalieu. 



Williamson's Virgalieu. Coxe, 1817. 



Virgalieu. Nursery Cat. 1807. 



Bergaloo. Of CuUivators, 



Surpasse Virgoulouse. Of Parmentier and others. 



Columbian Virgoulouse. Of Bloodgood. 



Columbia. Downing. 



Saint Michael. Of Boston Cultivators. 



In our first edition of this work in 1833, we omitted 

 this most valuable pear, supposing from the similarity of 

 names, that it might be the same as (No. 146) the Virgou- 

 louse of the French, the fruit of which we had never seen. 

 During the past Summer we had an opportunity to see and 

 compare the fruit of four distinct varieties which by or- 

 chardists and cultivators in general have been confounded. 

 They were the White Doyenne, the Gray Doyenne, the 

 Virgouleuse, and the New York Virgalieu. They are be- 

 yond question distinct fruits, and the latter decidedly the best. 

 In comparinsf the young wood of the White Doyenne and 

 New York Virgalieu, at this time, (Dec. 1845,) the differ- 

 ence in its color and in the form of the buds is very evi- 

 dent. That of the former is of a light ash color; the eyes 

 or buds stand out prominent. In the shoots of the New 

 York Virgalieu, on the other hand, the wood is of a chest- 

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