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medium, variable in form, ovate-obtuse and swelled in lower half, or long-pyriform, nar- 

 rowed toward the stalk; skin thick, smooth, bright green changing as it ripens to yellowish- 

 green, strewed with small dots and some markings of russet; flesh greenish-white, coarse, 

 semi-melting, gritty at center, juicy, only slightly saccharine, generally sweetish and 

 deficient in perfume; variable for dessert, but first for compotes; Dec. 

 Louise Bonne d'Avanches Panachee. i. Hogg Fruit Man. 607. 1884. 



A variegated form of Louise Bonne de Jersey, the wood and fruit being marked with 

 golden stripes. It originated as a bud sport. 



Louise-Bonne de Printemps. i. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:359, fig. 1869. 2. Downing Fr. 

 Trees Am. 804. 1869. 



Obtained by M. Boisbunel, Rouen, Fr., and first published in 1857. Fruit above 

 medium, long obtuse-pyriform, regular in contoixr, mammillate at summit and slightly 

 bossed at base, yellow-ochre, dotted with greenish-gray; flesh semi-fine and semi-melting, 

 white, gritty around the center, very juicy, rarely sugary, slightly sweet and slightly aro- 

 matic; grafted on pear and trained on espalier in a good situation it is a pear of high merit; 

 Feb. to Apr. 



Louise Bonne Sannier. i. Guide Prat. no. 1876. 2. Cat. Cong. Pom. France 291, fig. 

 1906. 



M. Sannier, Rouen, Fr., obtained this pear; it was first reported in 1868. Fruit rather 

 small or medium, oval, obliquely obtuse near the stem, dark yellow, touched with bright 

 red; flesh yellow, juicy, melting, remarkably saccharine, sprightly and perf tuned; good to 

 very good; Oct. to Dec. 



Louise de Boulogne, i. Barry Fr. Garden 317. 1851. 2. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:361. 

 1869. 



Described by Barry in 1851 among " new and rare pears, recently introduced, that 

 give promise of excellence." Leroy wrote of it as a seedling of Van Mons. Fruit large, 

 breaking, keeps through the winter. 

 Louise Dupont. 1. Ann. Pom. Beige 2: sg, fig. 1854. 2. Mag. /fori. 23:301. 1857. 



Louise Dupont was the product of one of the last seedlings raised by Van Mons and 

 was harvested for the first time in 1853. Fruit rather large, sometimes of Doyenn^ form 

 but usually longer and more tiorbinate; skin thin, dull green passing to golden yellow at 

 maturity, colored with russet-fawn on the sunny side, dotted and marked with fawn all 

 over; flesh white, semi-fine, melting, full of juice, saccharine and well perfumed; first; Oct. 

 and Nov. 

 Louise d'Orleans. 1. Horticulturist 1:140. 1846. 2. Ann. Pom. Beige 2:35, fig. 1853. 



From seed sown by Van Mons in 1827 at Louvain and first bore fruit in 1843. Fruit 

 medium, oblong-obtuse; skin is of a fine bronzed-green, covered with gray speckles; fiesh 

 very white, fine grained and very melting; juice exceedingly rich, sugary and delicious; 

 early Nov. 

 Louise de Prusse. i. Leroy Did. Pom. 2:362, fig. 1869. 



Obtained by Van Mons and pubhshed by him in September, 1832, but it had already 

 been reported in 1826. Fruit large, turbinate-obtuse, more or less long, considerably 

 swelled toward its lower end; skin thick and rough, yellow-ochre clouded with green, 



