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often planted in flower-pots ; in which state they produce 

 their fruit freely, forming very ornamental objects. Many 

 hundreds of small trees adapted for this purpose are yearly 

 sent from Orleans to the Paris nurseries. The different 

 varieties of Fennel-apples, the golden, the common yellow^ 

 and the grey, are, I find, equally favourites in France as in 

 Italy. 



Among summer pears, the Epargne or Grosse Cuisse- 

 Madame, being our large or improved jargonelle, holds 

 the first place. It is ripe a week or a fortnight earlier 

 than the common cuisse-madame, which resembles it, and 

 which, in our o^er gardens, is often found under the 

 name of jargonelle. M. Noisette recommends strongly, as 

 a summer pear, the Rousselet de Rheims : this is a small 

 roundish or oval pear, at present of a dark green colour, 

 but acquiring a tinge of red as it approaches maturity : 

 At Rheims these rousselets are much used for drying in 

 ovens, making what are called poires topees. M. Noisette 

 made me taste the Bourdon musque, a small round pear, 

 very juicy and highly perfumed : it must be a very early 

 kind, for the fruit is already rather over-ripe. He likewise 

 made me try the Poire d'oeuf, an oval pear of considerable 

 merit, and now nearly ripe. Among the autumn kinds, 

 the Crasanne is accounted decidedly the best : A subva- 

 riety here cultivated, with finely variegated leaves, might 

 prove ornamental in some situations at home. The Doyenne 

 gris ranks next to the crasanne, being here more high- 

 ly esteemed, and more generally cultivated than with us : 

 the tree is considered as extremely fruitful, and as coming 

 quickly en rapport, or into a fruit-bearing state. The 

 Beurre gris and Beurre d'Angleterre are kept as dis- 

 tinct kinds, and are both strongly recommended : the sort 

 called the English Beurre seems only a sub variety ; the 



