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properly observe, "That if nurserymen and gardeners would "meet together, as the florists do at Haarlem, to agree in naming a new flower so judiciously, the nomenclature of "fruits would not be so absurd as we often find it." They then add, respecting their Doyenné Roux, “what opinion "can we have of him who first called this Pear Doyenné Gris (gray), which has nothing gray about it, but is of a lively "red? yet DUHAMEL, and all subsequent writers, have adopted this silly name. Thinking it our duty, on this occasion, not to assert what is false, we have not hesitated to "change the name.'

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Agreeing perfectly with the sentiments of these celebrated writers on this point, I now proceed to give a short description of our tree.

All those I have seen, have been most abundantly productive, yet vigorous, and forming handsome conical heads, with lateral branches horizontal, and sometimes, in a rich soil, weeping; leaves oval, more or less finely toothed, with very slender footstalks; flower buds conical, the end of the branch under them a little thickened, but not so remarkably as in the common Doyenné Pear tree, the fruit of which, though larger in size, is very inferior in goodness. Flowers slightly tinged with rose colour; but the tint varies, and is, I believe, deeper when the nights are colder than usual, especially if the frost is very sudden: they are about an inch in diameter. Fruit commonly a little turbinated, or topshaped, sometimes, when they grow in clusters, almost globular, crowned with the permanent leaflets of the calyx, which

* DUHAMEL Traité des Arbres Fruitiers par POITEAU et TURPIN. Sub. Doyenné Roux.

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