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tartness in the flavour. The seeds are long and slender, and 

 the fruit ripens at the beginning of September. The tree 

 propagates both on the quince and pear. Quintinye and 

 Evelyn arrange the Tuliped or Fly Pear, and the Villain 

 Pear of Anjou, as distinct fruits ; but Miller, it will be per- 

 ceived, unites them, and from what authority I know not. 



WHITE DOYENNE. Pom. mag. Pr. cat. 



Virgalieu, Doyenne, St. Michael, S^c, Pr. cat. 25 ed. 

 Doyenne, Beurre hlanc, or St. Michael. Roz. 

 Doyenne. Quin. Duh. Mil. For. 

 Doyenne, Dean's, or St. Michael. Evel. 

 Doyenne hlanc. Lend. Hort. See. cat. 

 Beurre hlanc, \ 



Saint Michel, > Duh. syn. Mil. syn. 

 Bonne-ente, ) 



Beurr6 doyenne hlanc, of some French catalogues. 

 St, Michel. Quin. syn. 

 Beurre hlanc d^automne, ^ 

 White or autumn butter pear, > Mil. syn. 

 Snow pear, y 

 St.MichaeVs. Mil. Fes. Amer. Gard. 

 Dean's pear. Mil. syn. and others. 

 Poire de neige. Mil. syn. and others. 

 Valencia or Valentia. Mil. syn. and others. 

 Carlisle. Mil. syn. and others. 

 Poire de Limon, 

 Poire Monsieur, 

 Poire a, courte queue, 



CitrondeSeptemlre, \ ^^^-^^^ collections. 

 Poire de Seigneur, 

 White hutter. 

 White heurre, 

 Kaiserhirne, 

 Die weisse herhst hutterhirne. Christ. 

 Yellow hutter, Beurre doree, or St. Michaels. Coxe. 



B^urgllue, \ ^^^^ American gardens. 

 Garner, or Gardner, of the state of Rhode Island. 



I extract the following description from the Pomological 

 Magazine. " This is a very old and excellent pear, which has 

 so long been a favourite with cultivators, especially in France 

 and Germany, that its names have become in themselves a 



