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PEARS. 



usage had too firmly established it, and this erroneous title is 

 consequently continued in the Pomological Magazine and 

 every other English author, although there has existed in 

 England during the whole period a French pear to which it 

 was well known this title had been originally applied in its na- 

 tive country, and by which alone it was there recognised. 

 But in the present case even the danger of confusion does not 

 exist, because the title adopted had never been applied to any 

 other variety, and in publications emanating from myself all 

 the other most important synonymes were invariably subjoined 

 to the one referred to. 



It is stated in Fessenden's American Gardener, that at Bos- 

 ton this pear was till lately the pride of their gardens, but that 

 causes unknown have for ten successive years blighted its 

 fruit ; yet he advises the continued culture of it, because they 

 have seen the peach, after fifteen years of failure, resume its 

 wonted fertihty and vigour. 



GRAY DOYENNE. Pom. mag. Pr. cat. 



DoyennS gris. Roz. O. Duh. For, Pr. cat. 25 ed. 

 Doyenne roux. N. Duh. 



Le beurre, > some French collections. 



Beurr^ doyenne roux, ^ 



Red doyenne, of some English catalogues. 



Late Virgalieu, of some American collections. 



Doyenne d^automne, of some European collections. 



Doyenne galeux. Nos. cat. and some American catalogues ? 



The following description is from the Fomological Maga- 

 zine, published in London. 



" This variety is often confounded with the White Doyenne 

 already described. The flowers, wood, and leaves are almost 

 the same as those of that variety ; the fruit not so large as 

 that, but of a similar form ; skin covered with a bright cinna- 

 mon russet, and occasionally in high ripened specimens, red 

 next the sun ; flesh scarcely so white as that of the preceding 

 sort, rich, melting, and sugary. 



We think that this is scarcely so good as the White Doy- 



