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ges of die French soldiery, are the largest and oldest which 

 we have yet remarked on our tour. Some of the kinds are, 

 the White Magdalene and the Red Magdalene ; the Large 

 Mignonne ; the Mignonne double de Troyes, a small 

 fruit ; and the Dutch Peach, or Peche de la Hollande. 

 Two or three nectarine-trees are also of considerable stand- 

 ing. The Large White Nectarine may be particularly 

 mentioned, as it is perhaps little known at home : the tree 

 is distinguished by the leaves being of a lighter green than 

 in the other varieties ; and the fruit is said to be of excel- 

 lent flavour. 



The best plums here are the green-gage and red-gage. 

 The Swiss plum receives a good character : it seems to 

 be the same fruit as the Prune altesse of Brussels. 



The wall pear-trees had received much damage ; but some 

 of them now again clothe the portion of wall which they 

 had previously occupied, and many young trees have been 

 planted both as espaliers and as standards. The most in- 

 teresting is the Buerre ft Ar ember g ; a new pear, described 

 as possessing very superior excellence, and, we have rea- 

 son to think, highly deserving of being introduced in- 

 to Scotland by the agency of the Horticultural Society. 

 The foliage and wood resemble those of the Winter Bon- 

 chretien ; the fruit is like the brown beurre, but tapers 

 more regularly, and the skin is of a lively green colour. 

 It is a winter pear, not fit for use till December or Janu- 

 ary. It is represented as equalling the other butter-pears 

 in all their good qualities, and as surpassing them in this, 

 that it never proves gritty at the core, as they sometimes 

 do. The brown beurre, we may remark, is here and in 

 other parts of the Continent, very generally called the 

 Beurre d'Angleterre. 



The apples consist chiefly of different kinds of rennets, 

 calvilles, and courpendues; but the trees are almost all 



