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clingstone ; but this he does of many others well known to be 

 melters. 



" In Mayer's Pomona Franconica, vol. ii. p. 234, the Avant- 

 Peche Blanche of Duhamel, and the White Nutmeg of Miller, 

 is stated to be called in Holland ' La Montagne,' but this is 

 contrary to the statement of Knoop before referred to, and as he 

 describes the Madeleine Blanche as ' une grande et belle Peche,' 

 he would not mistake the White Nutmeg for it, when he says, 



* Je pense que cette sorte est la meme qu'on appelle dans ce 

 pays-ci la Montagne Blanche, a cause que la description de 

 cette derniere sorte est entierement conforme a celle-ci.' 



" It appears, therefore, from the above authorities, that the 

 Montagne and Madeleine Blanche are the same thing. The 

 1 Montagne Double' is, without doubt, a larger variety of the 



* Montagne Simple ;' as may easily be inferred from the sense 

 in which double is used in the Netherlands. 



" From circumstances I think we are justified in concluding, 

 that if the Noblesse peach is in cultivation in France, it must 

 be included among their Madeleine Blanche peaches. To the 

 Noblesse are closely allied Ford's Seedling, Sulhamstead, 

 Cambray, Montauban, Vanguard." 



It is further remarked in the Pomological Magazine, that 

 the Noblesse of the Americans appears, from Coxe's account 

 of it, to be very different from the foregoing ; but I believe the 

 one cultivated in my collection is the same as here described, 

 and Mr. Coxe may have been led into a mistake from his tree 

 being an erroneous one, as there were formerly several kinds 

 cultivated near New- York to which the different owners gave 

 this title. 



EARLY CHEVREUSE. PR. CAT. 



Chevreuse hdtive. Duh. Roz. 

 Belle Chevreuse. Die. d'Agric. syn. 



The flower of this tree is small ; the fruit of fine size, ra- 

 ther oblong, divided on one of its sides by a very distinct 

 groove, one border of which is more elevated than the other ? 



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