The fruits of America : containing richly colored figures, and full description of all the choicest varieties cultivated in the United States . THE D OTE ^^tTK B OUIJ SOCK P EAR . IriLuts of Amebic ^. rut £l\P . nDiawi^f-roTnlL^Littf &^CXrf,^.. iiUJ hijSlxaj-y ^ S THE DOYENNE BOUSSOCK scribed as follows Doyenne Boussock. Magazine of Horticulture, vol. xiii. p. 68. Doyenne Boussock Nouvelle, American Orckardisl, 3d Broussach, of some French Collections. It is somewhat remarkable that a pear, pos-sessing the excellent qualities of the DoyenneBoussock, should not have had a
The fruits of America : containing richly colored figures, and full description of all the choicest varieties cultivated in the United States . THE D OTE ^^tTK B OUIJ SOCK P EAR . IriLuts of Amebic ^. rut £l\P . nDiawi^f-roTnlL^Littf &^CXrf,^.. iiUJ hijSlxaj-y ^ S THE DOYENNE BOUSSOCK scribed as follows Doyenne Boussock. Magazine of Horticulture, vol. xiii. p. 68. Doyenne Boussock Nouvelle, American Orckardisl, 3d Broussach, of some French Collections. It is somewhat remarkable that a pear, pos-sessing the excellent qualities of the DoyenneBoussock, should not have had a more extendedreputation, or have been better known to pomol-ogists. Our first knowledge of it was derivedfrom the American Orchardist, where it was brieflynoticed, and first made known to American col-lections, by Mr. Kenrick, on his return fromEurope, in the spring of 1841. In a subsequentedition of the Orchardist, it was more fully de-- New and large ; of superior excellence ; ripeningat Paris in November. (4th Ed. p. 101.) From this favorable notice,we were induced to add the variety to our collection; and our trees hav-ing produced fine specimens the last two years, we are enabled to statethat it fully equals the character ascribed to it by Mr. Kenrick. It isnot only a very large and
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