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LOUISE BONNE DE JERSEY 



I. Kenrick Am. Orch. 148. 1841. 2. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 53. 1852. 3. Field Pear Cult. 218, fig. 

 81. 1858. 



Louise Bonne of Jersey. 4. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 397, fig. 174. 1845. 5. Hovey Fr. Am. 1:39, 

 PI. 1851. 6. Jowr. i^or/. N. S. 38:161, fig. 26. 1880. 7. Hogg Frutt Kan. 606. 1884. 



Cule Louise von Avranches. 8. Dochnahl Fiihr. Obstkunde 2:138. 1856. 9. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 

 229. 1889. 



Bonne Louise d'Avranches. 10. Ann. Pom. Belge6:2<), PI. 1858. 11. Pom Francei: No. 21, PI. 21. 

 1863. 12. Mas Le Verger 3: Pt. i, 67, fig. 32. 1866-73. 13. Leroy Diet. Pom. 1:482, fig. 1867. 14. 

 Guide Prat. 286. 1876. 



Louise. 15. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 23. 1897. 16. Ont. Dept. Agr. Fr. Ont. 170, fig. 1914. 



Now known in America as Loviise, a name given it by the American 

 Pomological Society, this variety is described under the name given it in 

 England to distinguish it from at least eight other varieties having Louise 

 as the whole or a part of the name. The pear is an old one, having many 

 excellent qualities of fruit and tree, which, however, are not sufficiently 

 above the average to give it high place in the list of pears for the market. 

 The pears are medium to large, handsome, of excellent quality, and keep 

 and ship well. These qualities have given it some preeminence as a pear 

 for the export trade. The trees are precariously hardy and somewhat 

 subject to blight, but very vigorous, productive, and long-lived. In 

 Europe, the testimony of prominent pomologists agrees that the fruits are 

 better and the trees more productive when worked on the quince, and in 

 America the variety is considered one of the best for dwarfing. This pear 

 is a standard one for home collections, and finds favor in many commer- 

 cial orchards in New York. 



The parent tree of this pear was raised from seed about 1780 by M. 

 de Longueval, Avranches, Normandy. Some authorities say that the 

 variety was first named Bonne de Longueval; others, that M. de Longueval 

 immediately dedicated the pear to his wife and called it Bo7ine Louise de 

 Longueval. Later still, the Pomological Congress adopted the name of 

 Bonne Louise d'Avranches, by which it became more generally known, 

 though in England, it rather tinfortunately became widely disseminated 

 as Louise Bonne de Jersey, having, presumably, found its way there through 

 the Channel Islands. The variety was brought to the United States early 

 in the nineteenth century, and in 1852 was entered in the recommended 

 list of fruits of the American Pomological Society. In 1897, this Society 

 shortened the name to Louise. 



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