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THE SAINT JULIAN APPLE.
Concombre des Chartreux. Hort. Cat. no. 195.
Seigneur d’Orsay. Ib. no. 1034.
Pomme de Saint Julien. Ib. no. 1015.
This sort was received by the Horticultural
Society under the above names, from the Luxembourg
Garden, at Paris. Of the Concombre des
Chartreux, and Seigneur d’Orsay, no account has
been found. If the Concombre des Chartreux be
the same sort as the Pomme Concombre described in
Noisette’s Manuel, p. 545, as being “ très allongé
that name must be misapplied to this sort. Duhamel
mentions, tome i. p. 292, that they have an
Apple in Normandy which they call Pomme de
Julien, ou de Saint Julien, bearing much resemblance
to the Vrai Drap JO r . Probably, this may be the
sort he alludes to; but he does not give a full
description of it. Manger includes the Drap d Or,
Reinette Drap d’Or, Pomme de Caractère, of Knoop ;
the Drap d’Or, Pomme de St. Julien, on Pomme de
Julien en Normandie, of Duhamel; and the Embroidered
Apple of Miller, as synonymous. In this,
however, he is corrected by Sickler, as far as
relates to Knoop’s and Duhamel’s sorts; and the
Embroidered Apple, of Miller, is also different from
either. Much confusion has existed amongst the
sorts designated by the above names. The Em-
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