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Jargonelle

a variety of early pear, of fine quality, SO called from resembling in color the mineral jargon. JARNAC (zhär-näk'), a small town of France, on the Charente, 16 miles from Angoulême. Here the Huguenots were Huguenots defeated by Henry d'Anjou, afterward Henry III., March 13, 1569. The Prince de Condé fell in this battle.

JAROOL (jä-röl'), in botany, Lagerstromia reginæ, common in the Indian peninsula and in Burma. It yields a blood-red wood, which, though soft and open in the grain, is greatly used in In-

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