564 THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 



ToUbime. i. hoschnig Mostbirnen 214, fig. 1913. 



A very productive perry pear of Eiirope with fruit notable because of its beautiful 

 color. Tree vigorous, upright. Fruit medium, round-obovate, very uniform; skin tough, 

 smooth, glossy, green changing to yellow, side next the sun blushed with bright carmine 

 and dotted heavily with brown-russet dots, russeted at top and bottom; calyx small, open; 

 stem medium long, slender; flesh almost white, juicy, tart; mid-Oct. to Dec. 

 Tolstoy. I. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 135. 1920. 



Originated by N. E. Hansen, Brookings, S. D., from Clapp Favorite x Pyrus ovoidea, 

 and introduced by him in 19 19. 

 Tom Strange, i. Buckman Fruit Var. in Ex. Orch. 6. 1901. 



This variety is found in the experimental orchard at Farmingdale, 111., of Benjamin 

 Buckman, who writes: " The ' Tom Strange ' pear is a small local variety received from 

 a person of that name, not worthy of disseminating under a name and had better be 

 dropped." 

 Tonkovietka. i. Mont. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 53. 1882. 



Limbertwig. 2. la. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 321. 1885. 



Thintwig. 3. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 59. 1887. 



One of the Russian pears imported by Prof. J. L. Budd from Dr. Regel, Petrograd, 

 Russia, about 1879 and known by the Iowa Agricultural College under the ntimbers 513 and 

 14 m. Chas. Gibb, Abbottsford, Can., says this is the hardiest pear tree which bears edible 

 fruit of which he knows. The name means slender stalk. Tree hardy, fine, productive. 

 Fruit medium, conical, yellow, with red on the sunny side; flesh porous; ripens beginning 

 of Aug. and keeps until Sept.; commendable for commercial orchards. 

 Tonneau. i. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:237, PI. LVIII, fig. 5. 1768. 2. Hogg Fruit 

 Man. 656. 1884. 



Fassbirne. 3. Christ Hcundb. 564. 1817. 



This large cooking pear has been confused by Leroy and others with Uvedale 

 St. Germain, but Hogg and Mas agree that the two are quite distinct. The French word 

 tonneau and the German word fass are both translated " cask," a term which describes 

 the shape of this pear very well. Tree vigorous; shoots upright; leaves pubescent, light 

 green, young leaves yellowish-green. Fruit very large, oblong-ovate or cask-shaped; skin 

 clear yellow; caljoc large, open; basin deep, wide; stalk an inch long, straight, woody; 

 cavity deep, irregular; flesh very white, rather dry; flavor brisk; more an ornament than 

 a dessert fruit; Nov. to Feb. 

 Toronto Belle, i. Ont. Fr. Gr. Assoc. Rpt. 82. 1882. 



" We tested the fruit late in December and found it in grand condition; in quality 

 it is equal to Beurr^ Bosc, and almost identical in form and color. The tree is a slow 

 grower but a heavy and regidar bearer. It is without doubt the finest winter pear we 

 know of, opening, as it does, a new era in the quality of winter pears." 

 Totten Seedling, i. Mag. Hort. 14:109. 1848. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 868. 1869. 



Raised by Col. Totten, New Haven, Conn. Tree vigorous. Fruit small to medium, 

 roundish-pyriform to obovate, pale yellow, slightly tinged with red in the sun; stalk long; 

 calyx open; flesh white, sweet, perfumed; Sept. and Oct. 



