The fruits of America : containing richly colored figures, and full description of all the choicest varieties cultivated in the United States . lgium, which was widely disseminated as the BemTe dAremberg;but it subsequently proved to be the Glout Morceau, and hence hasarisen the confusion which now exists in regard to these varieties. Proba-bly not more than one in ten of all the trees which are sold from theFrench nurseries, are the true dAremberg; and it has been doubted bysome, whether the latter is even known in their collections. Several ofthe Enghsh nurseries also disseminate the Glout M
The fruits of America : containing richly colored figures, and full description of all the choicest varieties cultivated in the United States . lgium, which was widely disseminated as the BemTe dAremberg;but it subsequently proved to be the Glout Morceau, and hence hasarisen the confusion which now exists in regard to these varieties. Proba-bly not more than one in ten of all the trees which are sold from theFrench nurseries, are the true dAremberg; and it has been doubted bysome, whether the latter is even known in their collections. Several ofthe Enghsh nurseries also disseminate the Glout Morceau under thename of the Beurre dAremberg, and many American nurserymen stillcontinue the same error. It is singular that so great a mistake shouldhave been so long perpetuated, when the trees are so very dissimilar;and it shows how important, in the identification of varieties, are thewood, leaves, and habit of growth of the tree. The Beurre dAremberg was raised about thirty-five years ago, by theAbbe Deschamps, at Enghein, in the garden of the Hospice des Orphe-lines, in that city. Deschamps called it, after the place, Beurre des [U. BEURRE DAKEMBERG PEAR. Oi-phelines; M. Van Mons soon after named it Beurre Beauchamps, inhonor of its discoverer; others called it Bern-re dHaidenpont; andfinally, the name of Beurre dAremberg was given to it by mistake, but,becoming most general, it has been retained. After so many years of confusion, in regard to the BemTe dArembergand Glout Morceau, it is a principal object with cultivators to knowevery means of identifying the two lands; and we have selected thesetwo varieties, not only on account of their intrinsic merits, but in orderto bring together a comparison in this respect. The fruits of the tworipen at the same season, and often have a great resemblance; but inall other characteristics there can be no two kinds scarcely more habit of growth of the Beurre dAxemberg is erect and regular,—that of the Griout Morceau, spre
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