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gourd-shaped, narrow and undulating towards the stem, golden-yellow, shining, speckled 

 with gray dots on the shaded side and with dull yellow on side exposed, and also extensively 

 washed with carmine on the same side; flesh yellowish-white, fine, semi-melting; jiiice 

 abundant, acidulous, sugary and aromatic; first; July. 

 Comewell. i. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 59. 1858. 2. Mag. Hort. 26:64. i860. 



A variety of unknown origin which about 1830-5 was disseminated by the " Vermont 

 grafters " who travelled the country setting grafts for those who desired. Fruit medium, 

 globular, greenish-yellow, much russeted, and with many dark and purple specks; flesh 

 yellowish- white, tender, melting, juicy, vinous, spicy and rather astringent; good; Sept. 

 Coter. I. Mag. Hort. 12:149. 1846. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 729. 1869. 



One of Van Mons' seedlings. Fruit medium, varying from obtuse to acute-pyriform. 

 light green or yellowish with russet dots and patches; flesh whitish, tender, juicy, vinous; 

 good; Oct. to Dec. 

 Coule-Soif de Cerutti. l. Mas Pcnn. Gen. 5:15, fig. 296. 1880. 



Origin unknown but was named after a druggist named Cerutti of Camburg, Saxe- 

 Meiningen, Ger., who propagated it in the environs of that village. Fruit medium, turbi- 

 nate, very bright green, speckled with dots of bright brown, changing to yellow on ripening; 

 flesh whitish, a little transparent, coarse, semi-melting; juice very plentiful, sugary, refresh- 

 ing; good; Sept. 



Courte-queue d'Automne. i. Leroy Did. Pom. 1:603, %• 1867. 2. Guide Prat. 91. 

 1876. 



Raised by Leroy in his nurseries at Angers, it bore its first fruit in 1S63. Fruit medium, 

 globular, irregular, one side usually less swelled than the other, bright green, dotted with 

 brown, much stained with russet and blushed with tender rose on the exposed side ; flesh 

 white, very fine, semi-melting ; juice abundant, sugary, having a delicate scent and a most 

 agreeable tartish flavor; first; Oct. 

 Courte-queue d'Hiver. i. Guide Prat, no, 260. 1876. 2. Ibid. 66. 1895. 



Obtained by Boisbunel, Rouen, Fr. Fruit large, gray; flesh fine, very melting, sugary 

 and perfumed, slightly musky; Mar. to May. 

 Cousin Blanc, i. Mas Pom. Gen. 5:133, fig. 355. 1880. 



Of Flemish origin. Cataloged by M. Jahn, 1864. Fruit medium, globular-conic, 

 very pale green, sprinkled with very fine points of fawn; flesh white, slightly tinted with 

 yellow, semi-fine and melting, fairly full of richly saccharine juice having a fresh and 

 pleasant flavor of almond. 

 Couteau. i. Parkinson Par. Ter. 593. 1629. 



Mentioned by John Parkinson in 1629 in a list of pears grown in England at that 

 time as a pear that is " neither good one way nor other." 

 Craig. I. Ohio Hort. Soc. Rpt. 177, fig. 1885-86. 



Early Buiier of Indiana. 2. Hooper W. Fr. Book 154. 1857. 



One of several seedling pear trees brought from Vincennes, Ind., by John Wright 

 and planted at Vevay, Ind., in 1804. Fruit very small, globular-acute-pyriform, pale 

 lemon-yellow, with faint indication of blush and many minute, russet dots; flesh white, 

 juicy, rather firm, pleasant; fair, becomes mealy when fully ripe; Jvme. 



