128 Account of the Pears received from the Luxembourg 



In the garden of the Chartreux had been assembled the 

 most curious and valuable fruit trees which the labours of 

 the fathers during a century and a half, had been able to 

 procure. The propagation of young plants from these, and 

 the sale of them to all parts of the world, had become a 

 source of considerable profit to the institution, and had 

 stimulated its superiors to bestow the greatest attention upon 

 their garden. 



In the early part of the revolution, the elder M. Hervy 

 saw the probability that the storm which was destroying 

 every religious establishment in France would not pass over 

 the Chartreux without desolating it like the rest ; he, there- 

 fore, applied for, and obtained permission from the existing 

 government, to establish a national garden of fruit trees, to 

 which might be removed the entire collection of the Char- 

 treux. In this undertaking he was ably assisted by his son, 

 the present Director, under whose careful management the ac- 

 curacy of the original nomenclature has been rigidly preserved. 

 The proof of this is in the fact, that in no instance have I found 

 a disagreement in the names of the fruits received from the 

 Luxembourg, and the description of them given by Duhamel, 

 all of which were made from the trees then growing in the 

 garden of the Chartreux. 



To the collection of established kinds, splendid as it is, the 

 Superintendant and Director of the Luxembourg garden have 

 not been unmindful to add such new varieties of fruits as 

 appeared to merit their attention. Amongst these will be 

 found the Beurree Ranee, a Pear of Flemish origin, and the 

 excellence of which entitles it to a place in every good 

 collection. I have described it as accurately as I could, and 



