2O8 THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 



by John Saul, Washington, District of Columbia, in 1870, and was noted 

 and illustrated by Elliott in the Rural New Yorker under the name 

 Pitmaston Duchesse d'Angouleme. Although favorably mentioned several 

 times by the American Pomological Society, the variety has never received 

 a place in the Society's fruit-catalog. 



Tree large, vigorous, spreading, dense-topped, moderately productive; trunk stocky, 

 shaggy; branches thick, slightly zigzag, reddish-brown, overlaid with very dark grayish 

 scarf-skin, marked with numerous large lenticels; branchlets long, dull, dark reddish- 

 brown, roughish, glabrous, with numerous small, raised, conspicuous lenticels. 



Leaf-buds short, obtuse, appressed; leaf-scars prominent. Leaves 2% in. long, i in. 

 wide, leathery; apex abruptly pointed; margin finely serrate; petiole if in. long. Flower- 

 buds short, conical, pointed, free; flowers showy, if in. across, well distributed, average 

 7 buds in a cluster; pedicels i in. long, pubescent. 



Fruit ripe in October; large, 3! in. long, 3 in. wide, oblong-obovate-pyriform, sym- 

 metrical; stem i in. long, thick, often curved; cavity very shallow and very narrow, or lack- 

 ing, the flesh drawn up in a wrinkled fold around the base of the stem, often lipped; calyx 

 closed, large; lobes long, broad, acute; basin shallow, obtuse, furrowed and wrinkled; 

 skin thin, granular, smooth, tender, dull; color pale lemon-yellow, dotted and somewhat 

 patched with light russet especially around the stem, without blush; dots numerous, 

 small, russet, conspicuous; flesh tinged with yellow, somewhat granular, melting, 

 buttery, very juicy, piquant and vinous; quality good to very good. Core large, closed, 

 with clasping core-lines; calyx-tube short, wide, conical; seeds narrow, long, flat, acute, 

 very often abortive. 



POUND 



i. Coxe Cult. Fr. Trees 209, fig. 63. 1817. a. Prince Pom. Man. 1:149. 1831. 3. Kenrick/lm. Orch. 

 151. 1832. 4. Downing Fr. Trees A m. 445. 1845. 5. /&*. 835. 1869. 6. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 22. 1871. 

 7. Wickson Cat. Fruits 326, 338, 344. 1889. 



Pickering. 8. Langley Pomona 133, PI. 71, fig. i. 1729. 



Union. 9. Miller Card. Kal. 31, 54. 1734. 10. Miller Card. Diet. 2: Pt. i. 1807. 

 Uvedale's St. Germain, n. Lindley Guide Orch. Card. 413. 1831. 12. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 70. 1862. 

 13. Hogg Fruit Man. 657. 1884. 14. Jour. Hort. 3rd Ser. 13:465. 1886. 15. Bunyard Handb. Hardy 

 Fr. 202. 1920. 



Bruderbirne. 16. Dochnahl Fiihr. Obstkunde 2:148. 1856. 



Winter Bell. 17. Watson Am. Home Card. 404, fig. 264. 1859. 



Belle Angemne. 18. Card. Chron. 979. 1860. 19. Mas Le Verger 1:31 bis, fig. 22. 1866-73. 20. 

 Card. Chron. 138. 1869. 21. Guide Prat. 61, 233. 1876. 



Schone Angevine. 22. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 279. 1889. 



Pound is grown in collections for its monstrous fruits, which have 

 few virtues other than large size. The pears not infrequently weigh three 

 pounds, and one is noted in the next paragraph weighing four pounds, 

 nine ounces. The pears are coarse in form, texture and flavor but one 

 degree better in flavor than the potato-like fruits of Kieffer and even more 

 sappy. The pears keep well and are said to be fairly good for culinary 



