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THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 



President Heron, i. Rev. Hort. 6. 1897. 



A new pear placed on the market in 1897 by Arsene Sannier, a nurseryman at Rouen, 

 Fr. Fruit medium; form recalling that of Urbaniste, obovate or oblong-obovate ; flesh 

 very fine, juicy, and perfumed. 

 President Mas. i. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 836. 1869. 2. Cat. Cong. Pom. France 



333. fig- 1906. 



First reported in 1865 as having been raised by M. Boisbunel, horticulturist at Rouen, 

 Fr., and adopted by the Pomological Congress of France. Fruit large, sometimes very 

 large, ovate-conic-obtuse and bossed round the stalk; skin rough, yellowish-green, much 

 dotted with russet, marbled with fawn around the eye; flesh whitish, fine, melting, juicy 

 with a sugary flavor, vinous and very pleasantly perfumed; very good; Nov. to Jan. 

 President Muller. i. Guide Prat. 102. 1876. 



Published by M. Gregoire, Jodoigne, Brabant, and on trial with Messrs. Simon- 

 Louis, Metz, Lorraine, in 1876. Fruit large; first; Nov. 

 President Olivier. 1. Guide Prat. 111. 1S76. 



Gained by M. Gregoire, Jodoigne, Bel., not long previous to 1876. 

 President d'Osmonville. i. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:547, fig. 1869. 2. Bunyard Handb. 

 Hardy Fr. 194. 1920. 



This variety was a posthumous gain of M. L^on Leclerc, Laval, Fr., in 1834, an amateur 

 well known among French pomologists. Fruit medium, ovate-pyriform; skin smooth, 

 fine and tender, very pale green changing to pale yellow, more golden on the side of the sun, 

 or occasionally washed on the more-exposed fruits with a suggestion of rosy red; flesh yellow, 

 very fine, entirely melting, filled with saccharine juice, vinous, and penetrated with a 

 lively musk flavor; first; Oct. 

 President Parigot. i. Leroy ZP^rf. Pohz. 2 : 548, fig. 1869. 



A variety originated by Count Nouhes near Pauzauges in the Vendee, Fr., where the 

 seedling gave its first fruit in 1852. Fruit above mediima, long-conic, narrowed in its upper 

 part and bossed; skin rather rough, orange-yellow, dotted with greenish-gray and exten- 

 sively washed with clear gray; flesh whitish, semi-flne, melting, watery, granular around 

 the core; juice abundant, very saccharine, vinous and with a delicious flavor; first; 

 Oct. 

 President Payen. i. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:549. 1869. 



This pear issued in i860 from a seed bed made by M. Briffaut, Sevres, Fr. It was 

 awarded a silver medal in 1861 by the Horticultural Society of Paris. Fruit medium, 

 long-pyriform, golden-russet sometimes washed with a red blush; flesh fine, melting, juicy, 

 saccharine, perf tuned, and of good flavor; of moderate merit; beginning of winter. 

 President Pouyer-Quertier. i. Guide Prat. iii. 1876. 



A French pear dedicated to a President of the Horticultural Society of Rouen. Fruit 

 medium, rather long, covered with gray-russet; flesh very fine, juicy, saccharine; first; 

 Dec. and Jan. 

 President Royer. i. Leroy Z^zd. Pom. 2:549, fig. 1869. 



M. Xavier Gregoire, the Belgian tanner of Jodoigne, obtained this pear in 1762 when 

 it fruited for the first time. Fruit medium; form recalling that of the quince, very bossed, 



