The fruits of America : containing richly colored figures, and full description of all the choicest varieties cultivated in the United States . iE CUBE Trurts of Aiaenra, Plaleli JirawiL from jNature & OiToino ^ by W. Sliarp. LE CURE^ Le Cuke^. Bon Jardinier, 1836. Vicar of Winkfield, < Monsieur le Cure, \ Hort. Soc. Catalogue, 3d Ed. 1842. Dumas, ) Clion, Kenricks New Am. Orchardisi. Monsieur, I Belle Heloise, (incorrecily,) \ c t,i i n n ^• -^ - of some rrench Collections. Belle de Berry_ Pater Notte, / Burgermeester, (incorrectly.) Book of Fruits, 1838, No. 67. Much c
The fruits of America : containing richly colored figures, and full description of all the choicest varieties cultivated in the United States . iE CUBE Trurts of Aiaenra, Plaleli JirawiL from jNature & OiToino ^ by W. Sliarp. LE CURE^ Le Cuke^. Bon Jardinier, 1836. Vicar of Winkfield, < Monsieur le Cure, \ Hort. Soc. Catalogue, 3d Ed. 1842. Dumas, ) Clion, Kenricks New Am. Orchardisi. Monsieur, I Belle Heloise, (incorrecily,) \ c t,i i n n ^• -^ - of some rrench Collections. Belle de Berry_ Pater Notte, / Burgermeester, (incorrectly.) Book of Fruits, 1838, No. 67. Much confusion exists in regard to the correctjiame of this pear. Poiteau, and other eminentFrench pomologists, have pronounced it identicalwith the Saint Lezain, an old and well knownvariety in France, where it has been cultivatedfor more than half a century; but, in all theprincipal collections, it is now known as Le Cure,or Mons. Le Cure, from its having been found inI^^^^ the woods by M. Clion, a French curate. Ee-\l cently, the London Horticultural Society, in their Catalogue for 1842, have called it the Vicar of Winkfield, from the circumstance of a tree growing in his garden, re-ceived from France, having first produced fruit in England. W
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