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LXVII. A Note on the Pears called Silvanges, and parti- 

 cularly on the Silvange Verte (Green Silvange). By Mons. 

 Charles Francis Pierard, of Manjouy, near Verdun- 

 sur~Meuse ; Corresponding Member of the Horticultural 

 Society. 



Read March 2d, 1824. 



The name of these fruits is derived from a hamlet situated 

 about a mile and three quarters west of the road from Metz 

 to Thionville, upon an ancient road leading to Treves. 

 The type of the variety still exists, it is said, in a garden of 

 the hamlet. 



There are three known sorts of Silvanges ; the Early 

 Yellow, the Long, and the Green; the first, which I never 

 saw any where but in my father's garden, whence we made 

 it known, pretty much resembles the Crassane. Its fruit is 

 beautiful, smooth, of a grayish green colour, yellow when 

 approaching to maturity, the period of which is about the 

 end of September or beginning of October. Its flesh is melt- 

 ing, of a pale yellow colour, perfumed, and excellent, but the 

 tree is a bad bearer. 



It is on account of its form, perhaps, that some nurserymen 

 distinguish one kind of Silvange by the name of Bergamotte 

 Silvange ; but never having seen this, we have hitherto been 

 wholly unable to compare it with the others. 



The second or Long variety of Silvange, is the most gene- 

 rally cultivated. It resembles the Doyenne in its form, 

 tapering a little more towards the stalk. The flesh of the 



