THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 473 



Ministre Bara. i. Ga. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 49. 1892. 2. Guide Prat. 96. 1895. 



A gain of Gregoire, Jodoigne, Bel. It was exhibited by P. J. Berckmans of Augusta, 

 Georgia, before the Georgia State Horticultural Society in 1892 and 1893. 

 Ministre Pirmez. 1. Guide Prat. iii. 1876. 



Published by Gregoire, Jodoigne, Bel. Fniit medium to large; flesh melting; first; 

 Jan. and Feb. 

 Ministre Viger. i. Rev. Hort. 113. 1901. 



Raised by Messrs. Baltet of Troyes, Fr., from seed of the Pierre Tourasse. It was much 

 noticed at the International Exhibition at Paris in 1900. Fruit large, turbinate, bossed, 

 tender yeUow clouded with ochre, washed with rosy gray and salmon on the side next the 

 Sim, vdih speckles of fawn; flesh fine, melting, very juicy, saccharine, with perfume notice- 

 able oh the skin, and flavor recalling that of the Duchesse d'Angouleme; mid-Dec. to mid- 

 Jan. 

 Minot Jean Marie, i. Guide Prat. 100. 1876. 



A seedling of Gregoire, Jodoigne, Bel. Fruit large, pjTiform, shortened, covered with 

 russet on a yellow foimdation; flesh yellowish, breaking, verj' juicj% sugary; first; Dec. to 

 Feb. 

 Missile d'Hiver. i. Kenrick Am. Orch. 169. 1841. 



A foreign variety recommended by M. Dalbret and M. Jamin, well known pomologists. 

 Fruit large, buttery, valuable according to M. Jamin; Nov. and Dec. 

 Mission, i. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 73. 1895. 



Originated at the old mission near Capistrano, California. Fruit medium, acutely 

 pyriform, long, yellow, nearly covered with russet; flesh very fine and buttery; very mild 

 or sweet; ripe in Sept. in southern California. 

 Mr. Hill's Pear. i. Langley Pomona 132, PI. LXIII, figs. 2, 4. 1729. 



Mentioned by Batty Langley, Twickenham, Eng., as bearing two crops in the year. 

 Fruit rather small, obtuse-pyriform, usually distorted at the upper end, grows in clusters; 

 in 1727 the first crop matured on Aug. 24, and the second crop on Oct. i. 

 Mitchell Russet. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 525. 1857. 2.1bid.&ij. 1869. 



Originated at Belleville, 111. Fruit medium or small, obovate inclining to conic; skin 

 rough, dark russet, thickly covered with gray dots; flesh juicy, melting, rich and highly 

 perfumed, astringent; scarcely good; Oct. 

 Mitschurin. i. Can. Hort. 17:292. 1894. 



Probably Russian. Fruit very large; a good kitchen fruit; mid-season. 

 Moccas. I. Gard. Chron. 717. 1841. 2. Ilogg Fruit Man. 617. 18S4. 



Raised from seed by Thomas Andrew Knight, Downton Castle, Eng. Fruit medium, 

 oval, uneven, and bossed in outline, lemon-colored, marked with patches and veins of thin 

 pale brown-russet and strewed with russet dots; flesh yellowish, fine, melting, tender, full 

 of rich vinous juice, musky in flavor; a delicious dessert pear. 

 Mollet Guernsey Beurre. i. Gard. Chron. 36, 85. 1842. 



Raised from seed by Charles Mollet of Guernsey, Channel Islands, who died in 1S19. 

 Fruit medium, obovate or somewhat pyramidal, with a remarkable fleshy extension of about 

 § inch at the insertion of the stalk, surface of the pear uneven, yellow, but much obsciu-ed 



