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green, speckled with russet; flesh gritty near the center, whitish-yellow, sweet, musky, 

 buttery, melting, aromatic; first for all pixrposes; Jan. to Mar. 

 Witte Princesse. 1. Knoop Pomologie 96, 139, fig. 1771. 



An old pear, probably of French origin. Tree vigorous, productive. Fruit medium 

 to above, oblong-pyriform, drawn to a point at the stem ; whitish-yellow or whitish-green, 

 dotted with pale brown dots and occasionally patched here and there with brown; stem 

 meditrm to above in length; flesh mellow, gritty, agreeably but not highly flavored; Aug. 

 and Sept. 



Wolfsbime. i. Dochnahl Filhr. Obsikunde 2:2. 1856. 2. Loschnig Mosibirnen 104, 

 fig. 1913. 



A perrj^ pear common to Wurttemberg from an early date. Tree mediimi vigorous, 

 large, roundish, a late but good bearer. Fruit mediimi, rotmdish, yellow, covered with 

 russet dots, devoid of red ; calyx large, open ; stem very long, set obliquely without depression ; 

 flesh yellowish-white, firm, acid; Oct. 



Woodbridge Seckel. i. Am. Poni. Soc. Rpt. 121. 1S60. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Aju. 

 885. 1869. 



In i860 a Mr. Woodbridge, Detroit, Mich., exhibited a seedling known as No. 2 before 

 the Fruit Committee of the American Pomological Society. This seedling was subse- 

 quently named Woodbridge Seckel. Tree moderately vigorous. Fruit small, p\Tiform, 

 pale yellow, shaded and marbled with crimson in the sun, thickly sprinkled with brown 

 and crimson dots; stem long, slender; cal>TC open; fiesh yellowish, juicy, melting, sweet, 

 vinous; very good, but rapidly decays at the core; Sept. 

 Woodstock. I. Am. Potn. Soc. Rpt. 201. 1856. 2. Elliott Fr. Book 416. 1859. 



Said to have originated at Woodstock, Vt., and first reported about 1856. Tree 

 a moderate grower, very productive; young wood olive-brown. Fruit medium to below, 

 roundish-obtuse to obovate-pyriform, pale yellow, netted and patched, and thickly 

 sprinkled with russet dots; stem long, rather slender, inserted in a small cavity, often by 

 a lip ; calyx large, open, placed in a rather deep, abrupt basin ; lobes long, slender, 

 persistent; flesh white, juicy, melting, sweet, pleasant, slightly musky; good to very 

 good; Sept. 

 Worden Meadow, i. Cultivator N. S. 2:340. 1845. 



Schuyler Worden, who originated the Worden grape, stated in 1845 that he had raised 

 this pear in Oswego, N. Y., from grafts given him by an old countrj-man. Tree vigorous, 

 productive. Fruit medium to large, shape variable and surface uneven; skin yellow at 

 maturity; flesh fine-grained, melting, juicy, sweet, with a musky flavor; ripens about the 

 middle of Sept. 

 Worlesbime. i. Dochnahl F-iihr. Obstkunde I'.ig^. 1856. 



A perry pear reported from Wurttemberg about 1830. Tree not vigorous, large, 

 long-lived, very productive. Fruit small, oval or pyriform, solid bright green, turning 

 lemon-yellow, numerously dotted with gray, somewhat flecked with russet; calyx in a 

 slight depression; flesh juicy, acid, bitter. 

 Wonnsley Grange, i. Kenrick Am. Orch. 187. 1832. 



This is a variety which is said to have been sent to the Hon. John Lowell by Mr. 



