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chards. Among the rennets, the Golden Pippin and the 

 Nonpareil seem both to be regarded as of English origin. 

 Two varieties which have originated in this garden may be 

 mentioned, but of their qualities I cannot speak ; the Belle 

 Hervy and the Concombre des Chartrcux. 01' table Pears 

 the number is great, extending to 130 at least. Here our 

 large jargonelle seems to bear four names, — Grosse cuissc 

 Madame, Epargne, St Sampson, and Beau present : there 

 appears no reason to doubt, therefore, that this was the 

 pear recommended to us, under the latter name, in 1817, 

 at Ghent (p. 4G.), and at Brussels (p. 274). Our com- 

 mon jargonelle is probably their cuissc madamc ; and their 

 jargonelle, a round red fruit, seems to be our Bellissime. 

 In this collection appeared the Sylvangc (noticed at p. 364.) ; 

 it belongs to the bergamotte family. The Beurre blanc 

 and Doyenne blanc, which we were led to regard as syno- 

 nymous at Antwerp in 1817 (p. 105.), are here shewn to 

 be distinct. A subvariety of the St Germain, with striped 

 fruit, appeared, and was rather a novelty to me. The 

 pear-trees are, in general, trained en pyr amide, in order 

 to save room ; but a few are en gobbclct, or open in the 

 centre. Many are placed on free-stocks, but some are on 

 quinces ; and these last seemed to yield the largest fruit, 

 and they come soonest into bearing. 



The peach-trees are trained to trellises placed against the 

 inclosure-walls, especially where they have a western as- 

 pect. Including nectarines or peches lisses, the varieties 

 exceed forty in number. Both male and female plants of 

 the plaqueminier or American date-plum (Diospyros Vir- 

 giniana) are likewise trained to the wall ; and the latter was 

 now in fruit. There is nothing very commendable in the 

 appearance of any of the wall-trees. 



In this " Ecole," during the spring and summer months, 

 M. Hervy annually gives a course of lectures or demon- 



