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THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 



spreading over the exposed cheek; dots numerous, very small, greenish-russet, conspicuous; 

 flesh whitish, granular especially at the center, medium tender, juicy, aromatic, sweet but 

 vinous; quality good. Core small, closed, with clasping core-lines; calyx-tube short, wide, 

 conical; seeds small, narrow, short, plump, acute. 



LAMY 



i. Ragan Norn. Pear, B. P. I. Bui. 126: 161. 1908. 



Comte de Lamy. a. Kenrick Am. Orch. 141. 1841. 3. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 371, fig. 158. 1845. 

 4. Card. Chron. 20, fig. 1846. 5. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 727. 1869. 6. Jour. Hort. N. S. 38:359, fig. 

 52. 1880. 7. Hogg Fruit Man. 553. 1884. 



Poire Dingier. 8. Ann. Pom. Beige 2:69, PI. 1854. 



Beurre Curtet. 9. Pom. France a: No. 77, PI. 77. 1864. 10. Leroy Diet. Pom. 1:341, figs. 1867. 

 ii. Guide Prat. 65, 243. 1876. 



Curtet's Butterbirne. 12. Mathieu Norn. Pom. 200. 1889. 



As the history shows, this is an old European pear which had its 

 probationary period in America many years ago, and which never got out 

 of the limbo of nurserymen's catalogs and collections. On the grounds 

 of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station, however, the pears 

 are so handsome and so delectable in quality that the variety seems quite 

 worth while describing and illustrating among the major sorts. It is a 

 splendid pear for the home orchard, but the tree is not large nor robust 

 enough for a commercial plantation. A few nurserymen still list it. 



This variety was raised from seed about 1828 by M. Bouvier, Jodoigne, 

 Belgium. It was first named Beurre Curtet in honor of M. Curtet, a 

 physician and professor at Brussels. The London Horticultural Society 

 first obtained the variety under the name Comte de Lamy, by which name 

 it has best been known in England. Lamy was early introduced to 

 America where trees have long been found in collections. 



Tree small, spreading, open-topped, hardy, productive; trunk slender, shaggy; branches 

 slender, shaggy, dull brown, overspread with thick scarf-skin, sprinkled with numerous 

 lenticels; branchlets slender, curved, short, with short internodes, brown changing to 

 reddish-brown on the newer growth, glossy, smooth, glabrous, with small, raised, conspic- 

 uous lenticels. 



Leaf-buds small, short, conical, pointed, plump, free. Leaves zf in. long, if in. wide, 

 leathery; apex taper-pointed; margin finely serrate to nearly entire, tipped with few minute 

 glands; petiole i| in. long, pinkish. Flower-buds large, thick, long, conical, very plump, 

 free, singly as lateral buds or on very short spurs; flowers late, very showy, if in. 

 across, in dense clusters, average 9 buds in a cluster; pedicels f in. long, thick, lightly 

 pubescent. 



Fruit matures in late October and early November; medium in size, 25 in. long, 2 in. 

 wide, obovate-obtuse-pyriform, often irregular and with unequal sides; stem if in. long, 



