[13] M’Clelland on Indian Cyprinidæ, ‘Asiatic Researches,’ vol. xix. part ii., 1839, pp. 266, 268, 313.
[14] Quoted by Sageret, ‘Pom. Phys.,’ 1830, p. 43. This statement, however, is not believed by Decaisne.
[15] ‘The Fruits of America,’ 1845, p. 5.
[16] M. Cardan, in ‘Comptes Rendus,’ Dec. 1848, quoted in ‘Gardener’s Chronicle,’ 1849, p. 101.
[17] M. Alexis Jordan mentions four excellent pears found in woods in France, and alludes to others (‘Mém. Acad. de Lyon,’ tom. ii. 1852, p. 159). Poiteau’s remark is quoted in ‘Gardener’s Mag.,’ vol. iv., 1828, p. 385. See ‘Gardener’s Chronicle,’ 1862, p. 335, for another case of a new variety of the pear found in a hedge in France. Also for another case, see Loudon’s ‘Encyclop. of Gardening,’ p. 901. Mr. Rivers has given me similar information.
[18] Duval, ‘Hist. du Poirier,’ 1849, p. 2.
[19] I infer that this is the fact from Van Mons’ statement (‘Arbres Fruitiers,’ 1835, tom. i. p. 446) that he finds in the woods seedlings resembling all the chief cultivated races of both the pear and apple. Van Mons, however, looked at these wild varieties as aboriginal species.
[20] Downing, ‘Fruit-trees of North America,’ p. 422; Foley, in ‘Transact. Hort. Soc.,’ vol. vi. p. 412.
[21] ‘Gardener’s Chronicle,’ 1847, p. 244.
[22] ‘Gardener’s Chronicle,’ 1841, p. 383; 1850, p. 700; 1854, p. 650.