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following Pears : Duchesse d" Angnultme, from a wall-tree, the 

 remaining ones from standards; Beurre d' Aremherg, Urbaniste ; 

 Double Phillips, a handsome standard Pear, large and tolerably 

 good : the Quaker Pear, which bears considerable resemblance 

 to the Doyenne gris : Poire cCAmande, Figue de Naples, Bezi 

 de la Motte, Pomme Poire, very good, hollowed at the eye and 

 stalk, like an Apple : and the Burgermeeater, a very excellent 

 Pear in a warm season. 



The following presents were announced ; 



The AthencEum, for August, for September and October, from 

 the Editor. 



The Botanical Register, for November, from the Publishers. 



Proceedings of the Geological Society of London, Vol. III. 

 Part II. from the Society. 



Comptes rendus, ti.c. So. 15, for the second half year of 

 1841, from the Academy of Sciences. 



Enumeratio Plantarum Xovarum, from the Author, CI. Schrenk. 



No. Ill and 11^ of the British Flowering Plants, by Mr. \Vm. 

 J^axter. 



The Floricultural Cabinet , for November. 



