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Good, the Great Mary of Amiens, the Grey 

 Messire John, Messire John Green, the Virgin 

 of Flanders, the Burnt Cat, Venus' Nipple, 

 the Musk Bon-Chretien (allied to our 

 Williams pear), the white Milan Pear, the 

 Onionet, the Little Dagobert, the Incognito 

 of Persia, the Winter Bagpipe, the Bourbon, 

 and a hundred others. It is from France, no 

 doubt, that we have borrowed our pears ; but 

 the French, in their turn, evidently trans- 

 planted from Italy, Savoy, and elsewhere 

 some of those which form part of Evelyn's 

 list. His catalogues of apples, plums, cherries > 

 and figs are also worth study ; but he 

 admonishes us in a note that some of the 

 English equivalents are not absolutely reliable, 

 and that' we had not attained at that time 

 to " so ample a choice and universal as to 

 supply the deficiency of the Dictionary." 



