CHAPTER XXI 



VARIEriEti OF PEARS 



Pears are ^vcll grown in but few parts of the United States, 

 and nowhere thrive as they do in temi)erate Europe. .Iud«i:ed by 

 the nunil)er of varieties offered l)y nurserymen, the pear is not 

 now as popuhir as it onee was in Ameriea. In 1872 the nursery- 

 men of the eountry offered more than 300 sorts of this fruit ; in 

 1925 it is doubtful whether seventy-five varieties can be pur- 

 chased. American fruit-books have described more than 1000 

 varieties of pears, while the Europeans have listed upwards of 

 5000 sorts. In this text are described only the kinds common 

 in the fruit regions of the country. 



INDEX TO VARIETIES OF PEARS 

 Synonyms Are in Italics 



Angouleme, 457 



Anjou, 471 



Bartlett, 447 



Beiirre Anjou, 471 



Beurre Bosc, 454 



Beurre Clairgeau, 470 



Beurre Hardy, 455 



Bloodgood, 453 



Bosc, 454 



Boussock, 450 



Clairgeau, 470 



Clapp Favorite, 449 



Cornice, 463 



Congress, 448 



Doyenne Boussock, 450 



Doyenne du Coniice, 463 



Duchesse d 'Angouleme, 457 



Elizabeth, 451 



Flemish Beauty, 466 



Hardy, 455 



HoAvell, 465 



Josephine de Malines, 474 



Kieffer, 468 



Lawrence, 475 



Lincoln Coreless, 472 



Louise, 459 



Louise Bonne de Jersey, 459 



Malines, 474 



Manning's Elizabeth, 451 



Mount Vernon, 456 



Pitmaston, 458 



Pound, 473 



Seckel, 462 



Sheldon, 464 



Souvenir, 448 



Souvenir du Congres, 448 



Sudduth, 469 



Tyson, 452 



Vermont Beauty, 461 



White Doyenne, 467 



Winter Nelis, 476 



Worden, 460 



Worden Seckel, 460 



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