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Lorette and his daughter have been spared to carry on their work, 
and that their beloved plantations, which they have tended for so 
many years, will still remain as a monument to the Professor's industry 
and acumen. Situated as it is, just outside the suburban area of Douai, 
one can but fear the worst has or will happen to the trees. 
APPENDIX. 
Note on Nomenclature of Fruit-tree Parts. 
In the English language there is no comprehensive vocabulary for 
the different parts of the various fruit-trees. True, we have the word 
" spur," but that is not very definite, and is applied to somewhat 
varying structures from the simple " lambourde," a single short 
branch terminated in a single bloom-bud, the multiple " lambourde," 
which has arisen from branching and forking of the " bourse " area 
of the simple form, to the clusters of fruit-buds on Cherry or Currant. 
For instance, in "The Fruit-growers' Guide " by J. Wright (recent ; 
Virtue & Co.), about the only distinction of parts given is a "short 
stubby shoot," which from the figure apparently betokens a long 
" dard " ; of the important organ the " bourse " there is apparently n<? 
mention, not to mention other parts. I called attention* to this want 
of terms in the hope of arousing suggestions for an authoritative set 
of terms. " A New English Dictionary " by Murray and others and 
Littr&'s French dictionary have been consulted for the following notes : 
Basal cluster of leaves on a shoot. — Cluster : " things of the same 
kind growing close together, e.g. fruits or flowers . . . originally of grapes, 
for which the word bunch is now common." As an alternative 
" Rosette " has been suggested, but " {a) a cluster of organs or parts 
resembling a rose in form or arrangement, (b) cluster of leaves naturally 
disposed like petals of a rose . . . 1848. ' Scions short, terminating 
in a rosette of leaves,' " show that the continuation centrally of the 
shoot makes the term inapplicable. 
Bourse. — Except for the use of " purse " as equivalent in Warder's 
translation of one of Du Breuil's works, and which does not seem 
very satisfactory, apparently the only one of English authors who 
have recognized the organ is J. Laurence, f who calls it a knob ; I 
suggest that this word be re-established. 
Coursonne (f.) , courson (m.). — "Branche taillee courte par opposition 
a d'autres taillees longues ; . . . bois qu'on taille tous les ans sur les 
branches charpentes de la vigne, et qui porte le produit de la bourre 
ou ceil. Branches coursonnes, sur le pecher, celles qui, placees sur la 
charpente, portent la branche a fruit de l'annee," that is, those which 
have been pruned short. In books on fruit culture the word is used 
for fruiting branches of other sorts as well as vine and peach, which 
* Gardeners' Chronicle, December 1914, p. 395, and again February I9i5» 
p, 71, and July 191 6, p. 14. 
t The Clergyman's Recreation &c, I7i6» Vide also Gardeners' Chronicle, 
July 6, 1916, p. 14 — 200 years later ! 
