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124. Belle Epine Dumas. 



Due de Bordeaux, 



Belle Heloise, 



Belle et Bonne de Hee, 



Dingier, 



Epine de Rochoir, 



^Of some French Collections. 



We have been in doubt as to which of the above names 

 is the legitimate title of this excellent pear, (fg. 18.) It 



Fig. 18. Belle Epine Dumas. 



has been sent from France under all of them, and the error 

 is still continued by some nurserymen, M. Jamin, of Paris, 



