THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 559 



Sylvie de Malzine. i. Guide Prat. 100. 1895. 



Sent out by Daras de Naghin, Anvers, Bel. Tree vigorous and fertile. Fruit medium, 

 globular; flesh rather fine, melting, recalling the Beurre d'Angleterre by its flavor; Nov. 

 and Dec. 

 Taglioretti. i. Mas Pom. Gen. 7:73, fig. 517. 1881. 



Tree bell-shaped, pyramidal; leaves bluish-green and dull, characteristically folded; 

 stipules remarkably short. Fruit medium in size, ovoid, short, broad, resembling the 

 Bergamo tte d'Ete and the Vallee Franche; skin rather firm, bright lemon-yellow to golden; 

 dots conspicuous; calj'x mediurai, open; basin narrow, rather deep; flesh white, mediimi 

 fine, medium breaking, juicy; good; Aug. 

 Takasaki. i. Ga. Hort. Soc. Rpi. 49, 54. 1892. 



E.Khibited by P. J. Berckmans at the Georgia State Horticultural Society Meeting 

 in 1892. Said to be a Japanese pear. 

 Talmadge. i. Horticulturist 2^,; 12 z. 1870. ' 



Northford Seckel. 2. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 123. 1881. 



Originated in the garden of Levi Talmadge at Northford, Conn., as a chance seedling 

 of Seckel. Tree hardy and vigorous, with spreading head, very symmetrical, attaining 

 double the size of the Seckel, verj^ productive. Fruit larger and more uniform than Seckel, 

 almost identical in form, with the same russet ground, slightly less ruddy coloring; flesh 

 white, juicy, melting; inferior to Seckel; ripens with Seckel. 

 Tardive d'Ellezelles. i. Guide Prat. iii. 1876. 



Probably originated in Beligium. Fruit large, grayish-green, pleasantly aromatic; 

 heat resistant; Apr. and May. 

 Tardive Garin. i. Guide Prat. in. 1876. 



Tree very vigorous and very productive. Fruit large, roundish, grayish-yellow; 

 flesh medium, melting, juicy, sweet; May and Jime. 

 Tardive de Mens. i. Hogg Fruit Man. 331. 1866. 2. Ibid. 654. 1SS4. 



Fruit medium in size, oblong-obovate, even and regularly formed; skin uniformly 

 yellow, orange tinge next the stm; dots large and russet; calyx large, open; stem rather 

 slender, obliquely inserted without depression; flesh white, tender, buttery, melting, very 

 juicy, rich, sugary; rated as an "excellent pear;" Nov. 

 Tardive de Montauban. i. Guide Prat. 107. 1876. 



Tree very productive. Fruit medium to small, rather long, reddish on the sunny 

 side; flesh fine, yellow, sweet, medium melting; first; very late. 

 Tardive de Solesne. i. Guide Prat. 100. 1895. 



Tree vigorous and very productive. Fruit large to very large; flesh breaking, very 

 sweet; first; Jan. and Feb. 

 Tatnall Harvest, i. Mag. Hort. 19:424. 1853. 



The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society rated specimens of this variety submitted 

 to it by Thomas Hancock, Burlington, N. J., as " scarcely good." 



Tavemier de Boulogne, i. Field Pear Cidt. 283. 1858. 2. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:696, 

 fig. 1869. 



Found in 1836 by M. Tavemier in a woods near Trelaze, Fr. Tree scraggly, produc- 



