THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 2O3 



flowers i g in. across, in a scattering raceme, from 8 to 10 buds in a cluster; pedicels ij in. 

 long, slender, pubescent, light green. 



Fruit in season from the middle to the last of September; medium in size, z\ in. long, 

 if in. wide, uniform in size and shape, oblong-pyriform, with sides usually unequal; stem 

 \ in. long, thick; cavity obtuse, shallow, narrow, often russeted and lipped; calyx open; 

 lobes separated at the base, narrow, acute; basin shallow to medium, obtuse, gently fur- 

 rowed, sometimes compressed; skin smooth, dull; color pale yellow, with small patches and 

 streaks of light-colored russet; dots numerous, very small, russet, obscure; flesh whitish, 

 with a yellow tinge at the core, granular, firm but tender, juicy, sweet, slightly aromatic; 

 quality "good. Core closed, with clasping core-lines; calyx-tube short, wide, conical; seeds 

 large, wide, long, plump, acute. 



P. BARRY 



i. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 38. 1875. a. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 2d App. 152, fig. 1876. 3. W. N. Y. 

 Hort. Soc. Rpt. 1 8. 1882. 4. Wickson Cal. Fruits 340. 1889. 5. Ellwanger & Barry Cat. 20. 1892. 

 6. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 17, 68. 1895. ^. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 41. 1909. 8. Wickson Cal. Fruits 273. 1919. 



The fruits of P. Barry are among the latest of all the pears grown on the 

 grounds of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station. They do not 

 ripen here until mid-winter and then keep until spring. A serious defect 

 is that they sometimes refuse to ripen but shrivel until decay sets in late 

 in the spring. To make certain that the pears ripen properly, the fruit- 

 room must not be too cold. The pears are excellent in flavor, have good 

 flesh-characters, and when properly ripened are excelled in quality by no 

 other winter pear. The variety should have a place in the collection of 

 every pear fancier to extend the season for this fruit, and commercial 

 pear growers might find it a profitable sort for local market. Unfortunately, 

 the trees are small, fastidious as to environment, and somewhat uncertain 

 in bearing. 



Bernard S. Fox, San Jose, California, raised many pears from seed 

 of Belle Lucrative. Among these seedlings was one which fruited in 1873 

 and was named P. Barry in honor of Patrick Barry, 1 an eminent nursery- 



1 Patrick Barry, one of the founders of the firm of Ellwanger and Barry, whose Mount Hope Nurseries 

 at Rochester, New York, were long of national and international reputation, was born in Belfast, Ireland, 

 in 1816 and died in Rochester, N. Y., in 1890. Besides contributing to the fame of the nursery company 

 he helped to found, Barry was for many years one of the leading pomological editors and authors of the 

 country. New York, especially western New York, is greatly indebted to George Ellwanger and Patrick 

 Barry for the horticultural services of their firm. It is not an exaggeration to say that they introduced 

 fruit-growing in western New York, a region now famous for its fruits. So, also, the parks and home grounds 

 of the many beautiful cities, towns, and villages in western New York are adorned and enriched by orna- 

 mental trees, shrubs and vines from the nurseries of Ellwanger and Barry. Patrick Barry came to America 

 in 1836 and with George Ellwanger founded the Mount Hope Nurseries in 1840. Here for a half century 

 he devoted himself to the introduction and distribution of fruit and out-of-door ornamental plants. In 

 the early life of the nursery company many importations were made from Europe and at a time when there 



