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THE SUMMER ROSE PEAR. 



Epine Rose \Duhamel, Arb. Fr. vol. ii. p. 176. Nois. 

 Poire de Rose 3 Jard. Fr. p. 110. f.44. Hort. Cat. wo. 262. 

 Rosenbirne . . . "j 



Epine Rose ... V Kraft. Pom. Austr. vol. i. p. 38. t. 84. 

 Poire de Rose J 



, , of some Collections, but not of Duhamel. 

 Epine d'ete . . 3 



The French Gardeners have a class of Pears 

 which they call Cailleaux, in consequence of the 

 resemblance their speckled appearance gives them 

 to the caille, or quail. To this class belongs the 

 subject of the present article, which is even, as Du- 

 hamel informs us, sometimes called the Cailleau 

 Rosat, a name, however, which belongs of right to 

 another variety, ripening in the end of September. 



There is no doubt about the synonyms above 

 quoted ; but it is necessary to remark, that this 

 is not the Epine Rose, or Rosendorne of Mayer's 

 Pomona Franconica, t. 22, which, as Mr. Thompson 

 has justly pointed out, is a long fruit, although that 

 writer quotes Duhamel's synonym without scruple. 



We have not adopted the name of Onion-shaped 

 Pear, which would have been a more expressive 

 name, because the French apply that term both to 

 Pears having the peculiar flattened figure of this, 

 and to others which grow in such clusters upon the 

 branches that the latter resemble a string of onions. 



