Hort. Soc. Cat., 3d Ed., 

 1842. 



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Poire Neige, 



Poire de Seigneur, 



Bonne Ente, 



A Courte Queue, 



Monsieur, 



Citron de Septembre, 



Valencia, 



Kaiserbirne, 



Kaiser d'Automne, 



Weisse Herbst Butterbirne, I 



Dechantsbirne, I 



Beurre du Roi, (of some,) j 



Beurr6 d'Anglaise, (of some,) 



Muscat d'Automne, (of some,) 



Passe Colmar d'Automne, (of some,) J 



Yellow Butter, Coxe's View, ^t. 



Saint Michael, of Boston. 



Virgalieu, of jYeiv York. 



Butter Pear, of Philadelphia. 



The White Doyenne, (fig. 19,) under one or more of the 

 last three names, is well known to every cultivator of fruit 

 throughout the country. It was one of the earliest pears 

 introduced into our gardens, and though now, in some sec- 

 tions of the country, discarded on account of the cracking 

 of the fruit, yet, where the locality suits it, it is one of the 

 finest of all pears. Under the name of Virgalieu, (errone- 

 ously,) it is brought to New York in great quantities, and 

 is the principal sort with which the market in that city is 

 supplied during the autumn months. Very extensive or- 

 chards of it have been planted in Western New York, where 

 it ripens in perfection, the trees being literally loaded with its 

 luscious fruit, and the high price at which the pears are sold 

 make it one of the most profitable sorts which the orchardist 

 can plant in that favorable region. 



In New England it has, within the last twenty years, 

 ceased to be much planted owing to the cracking of the 

 fruit, which renders it quite worthless. In some favorable 

 localities the fruit is, however, as fair as in New York ; in 

 cities, especially, it is as handsome as when it was first 

 introduced. In Boston there are trees, nearly a century old, 

 which yearly produce abundant crops of the finest and most 



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