FRUIT-TREES IN KASHMEER. 
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Pursuing a similar division of Pears, (Putung), the cultivated va¬ 
rieties are the following :—Nakh, Gosh-buggee, Koturnul, Goolabee, 
Kaghzee, Nashpatee. 
The wildings are, Seikatuug, Tanjeh, Yetanjeh, Khnrtanjeh. 
I found only one variety ripe, and which approximated in quali¬ 
ties to the white Beurree, though inferior in quality. 
In Ladakh, the Jargonelle and Cressanne were met with ; and as 
the wild pear is not indigenous to this country, it is presumed that 
these varieties were introduced from Kashmeer. 
The Quince or Broomzoontoo is of three varieties, viz.: Toorsh, 
Shereen, and Bedana. 
The whole of the apple family of Kashmeer seem to he free bear¬ 
ers, and this remark applies especially to the Quince, of which the 
peculiar flavour is so much higher than any I have seen in Europe ; 
that it is likely to afford a material, under due management, standing 
a fair chance of excelling the marmalade of Macon, and is now con¬ 
verted into an excellent preserve. 
Peaches, called Soppunoonoo, are of two varieties, distinguished 
more by one having a bitter and the other a sweet kernel, than by 
the respective qualities of their pulp, and held therefore as indifferent. 
Tser and Bhota Tser, or Apricot of Tibet, neither particularly 
good. 
The best of the family is the white Apricot of Baltee which is in 
perfection, in the garden of the Kaloon or Prime Minister at Ayoo, 
but on account of the great distance is only procurable with much 
difficulty and expense. 
A very large Apricot Kotach is found, but it comes in season in 
the rains, and is generally spoiled, owing to flies depositing their 
eggs in the pulp. 
Plums are of few varieties, and as they are not yet fully ripe, I 
can say little correctly respecting them, except that a green variety 
called Subza borders on the Green Gage; but its sweetness is not 
sufficiently relieved by acid. 
The best plum in India is a variety with small fruit in the garden 
of the Jooma Musjid, in the Fort of Lahore. This has peculiar 
characters, and seems to hold a rank between a loose-pulped cherry 
and a plum. 
The cherries , called here Gilas, are of three varieties : two ap¬ 
proach to the character of the Biggarroux and May Duke, and the 
third is the Morel or late black bitter Cherry. The fruit is rather 
smaller than that of Europe, and of this, as well as of the Apricot 
there are wild varieties. 
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