-10 PEARS. 



usage hud too firmly established it, and this erroneous title is 

 consequently continued in the Pomological Magay.ine and 

 every other English author, although there has existed in 

 England durum the whole period a French pear to which it 

 was well known this title had been originally applied in its na- 

 tive country, and by which alone it was there recognised. 

 But in the present case even the danger of confusion docs not 

 exist, because the title adopted had never been applied In any 

 other variety, and in publications emanating from myself all 

 the other most important synonymes were invariably subjoined 

 to the one referred to. 



It is stated in Fessenden's American Gardener, that at Bos- 

 ton this pear was till lately the pride of their gardens, but that 

 causes unknown have for ten successive years blighted its 

 fruit ; yet he advises the continued culture of it, because: they 

 have seen the peach, after fifteen years of failure, resume it- 

 wonted fertility and vigour. 



GRAY DOYENNE. POM. MAG. PK. CAT. 



Doycnnt gris. Roz. O. Duh. For. P-. cat. X?5 ed. 

 Doyenn roitx. N. Duh. 



Le beurre. ) .. ,, 



,, > 01 some rrench collections. 



Itciirrt doyennt roux, ) 



Red dnycntu', of some English catalogues. 

 Late Virgnlicu, of some American collections. 

 /)<>//< n//t d'automjic, of sonic Kuropean collections. 

 Doycnni galcm. Nos. cut. and some American catalogues ? 



The following description is from the 1 PomoloG'ical i\laga- 

 y.ine, published in London. 



" Tliis variety is often confounded \\ ith the White Doyenne 

 already described. The (lowers, wood, and leaves are almn.>t 

 the same as tho>r of that variety ; the fruit not so lar^e as 

 that, but o! a similar form : >kin covered with a bright cinna- 

 mon rus.-el, ;nifl occasionally in hiuh ripened specimens, red 

 next the smi ; tle>!i scarcely '-o \\liite as that of the preceding 

 Mjrt, rich, meltini:, and Hiirar\. 



" We think that thi- i- -carcel\ MJ vuud a.- the While Dov- 



