1 78 THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 



Tree large, vigorous, spreading, open-topped, rapid-growing, hardy, very productive, 

 long-lived; trunk shaggy; branches reddish -brown overlaid with heavy gray scarf-skin, 

 with large lenticels; branchlets slender, short, reddish-brown overlaid with gray, new 

 growth brownish, dull, smooth, with numerous small, raised, very conspicuous lenticels. 



Leaf -buds small, short, pointed, plump, appressed or free. Leaves 35 in. long, 2 in. 

 wide, leathery; apex taper-pointed; margin tipped with few small, black glands, finely 

 serrate; petiole 3 in. long, slender, tinged with red, glabrous; flower-buds small, very short, 

 conical, plvunp, singly on short spurs; flowers late, showy, i§ in. across, in dense clusters, 

 from 8 to 14 buds in a cluster; pedicels if in. long, pubescent. 



Fruit ripe in late August; large, 3I in. long, 2y\ in. wide, oblong-obovate-pyriform, 

 with an acute neck; stem characteristically long and curved, if in. long; cavity lacking, 

 the flesh folding up around the base of the stem, russeted, lipped ; calyx open ; lobes separated 

 at the base, long, broad, acute; basin very shallow and narrow, obtuse, gently furrowed, 

 compressed; skin smooth; color yellow, with a bright blush laid thinly over the exposed 

 cheek in streaks and splashes; dots numerous, greenish-russet, very small, obscure; flesh 

 yellowish-white, granular under the skin, gritty at the center, melting, very juicy, subacid, 

 aromatic, vinous; quality very good. Core large, open, with clasping core-lines; calyx-tube 

 long, narrow, conical; seeds large, wide, long, plump, acute. 



JARGONELLE (FRENCH) 



I. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:123. 1768. 2. Prince Pom. Man. 1:154. 1 83 1. 3. Downing Fr. 

 Trees Am. 339. 1845. 4. Ibid. 767. 1869. 5. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:303, fig. 1869. 6. Mathieu Norn. 

 Pom. 237. 1889. 



Bellissime d'£te. 7. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:203, PI- XLII. 1768. 8. Mas Le Verger 2:193, 

 fig. 95. 1866-73. 9. Leroy Diet. Pom. 1:216, fig. 1867. 10. Guide Prat. 70, 235. 1876. 



Cuisse Madame. 11. Coxe Cult. Fr. Trees 181, fig. 11. 1817. 



Red Muscadel. 12. Lindley Guide Orch. Card. ^^6. 1 831. 



Bassin. 13. Hogg Fruit Man. 491. 1884. 



Sclwnsle Sommerbirne. 14. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 280. 1889. 



This old sort, very different from Jargonelle, is worthy of descrip- 

 tion only to distinguish it from the much better and older pear of the 

 same name. A generation ago this French Jargonelle was much grown in 

 America, but has given way to better sorts. The pears are handsome, 

 but are poor in quality and are edible only a day or two after maturity 

 as they quickly rot at the center and become dry and mealy toward the 

 periphery. 



The name Jargonelle is used in France to denote a group of pears. 

 This fact accounts for the confusion which exists among the names and 

 synonyms of several varieties of this class. The French Jargonelle is said 

 to have originated in Anjou, a former province in France, where it was 

 much cultivated and highly esteemed toward the end of the fifteenth 

 century. 



