424 THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 



Ilinka. i. Guide Prat. 94. 1895. 2. Card. Chron. 3rd Ser. 36:368. 1904. 



This variety was published by Messrs Simon-Louis, of Metz, Lorraine, in 1895 as 

 having been received by them from M. Niemetz, Winnitza, Eiu-opean Western Russia. 

 Fruit medium to large, yellow, blushed with red on the side of the sun; mediiun quality; 

 end of July. 



Imperiale a Feuilles de Chene. i. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:228, PI. LIV. 1768. 2. 

 Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:287, fig. 1869. 



Oak-Leaved Imperial. 3. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 822. 1869. 



Imperiale. 4. Hogg Fruit Man. 596. 1884. 



The origin of this pear is unknown but it was propagated by the Chartreux Monks 

 of Paris in 1752. The tree is very vigorous and hardy and the leaves are singular in 

 that, due to their peculiar indenting and puckering, they have the appearance of being 

 sinuated like those of the oak. Fruit large, ovate, irregular, mammillate at the summit 

 and always having one side larger than the other, dull yellow, covered with large reddish 

 dots; flesh whitish, coarse, semi-breaking, juicy, gritty at center, sugary, almost without 

 perfume; first for cooking, third for dessert; Feb. to May. 

 Incommunicable. 1. Lindley Guide Orch. Card. 27(>. 1831. 2. Mag. Hort. gii^i. 1843. 



Flemish. In a list of pears grown in France and the Netherlands sent by Joseph Par- 

 mentier to the London Horticultural Society in 1S24. Fruit above medium., pyramidal 

 and compressed toward the stalk, pale grass-green, thickly sprinkled with small gray- 

 russety specks; stem short, stout, inclined; flesh yellowish- white, tinged near the core 

 with a light shade of orange, a little gritty, melting, juicy, saccharine, with a slight musky 

 perfume; latter half of Oct. 

 Incomparable de Beuraing. i. Guide Prat. 97. 1876. 



A French pear, presumably, published first by Gregoire and on trial in the trial- 

 orchard of Messrs. Simon-Louis in 1876. Fruit very large; flesh fine, melting, juicy; of 

 rather good quality; Nov. 

 Indian Queen, i. Mass. Hort. Soc. Rpi. 32. 1870. 2. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 66. 1875. 



Exhibited by Henry McLaughlin, Bangor, Me., before the Massachusetts Horti- 

 cultural Society in 1870. Fruit rather large, long-pyriform, greenish-yellow with a brown 

 cheek; flesh coarse, semi-melting, sweet, not rich, insipid; good for market only; Sept. 

 Infortunee. i. Mas. Pom. Gen. 3:69, fig. 131. 1878. 



Said to have been shown at the Exhibition of Gotha, Ger., in 1857. Fruit mediimi, 

 turbinate-ovoid, ordinarily regular in contour; skin rather thick, clear green spotted with 

 gray specks, round, small, numerous; at maturity the basic green becomes a dull pale 

 yellow and golden on the side next the sun; flesh yellowish, semi-fine and melting, gritty 

 round the core; juice sufficient and sweet; second; Aug. 

 Ingenieur Wolters. i. Guide Prat. 94. 1895. 



Sent out by M. Daras de Naghin, Antwerp, Bel. Fruit meditmi; flesh fine, very 

 sugary, perfimied; first; Oct. 

 Innominee. i. Prince Pom. Man. 2:213. 1832. 2. Kenrick Am. Orch. 155. 1832. 



Raised by Van Mons who in 1831 sent cions of it to the Massachusetts Horticultural 



