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of a gardener about the year 1784, found it already extensively grown there. Fruit large, 

 pyramidal and often inclining to oval, bright yellow changing to lemon-yellow and .much 

 dotted and splashed with light-colored russet; flesh white, fine, juicy, well perfumed and 

 with a flavor suggestive of cinnamon and musk; very good; Aug. and Sept. 

 Ananas d'fite. i. Hogg Fruit Man. 480. 1884. 



This is not the Dutch variety of Knoop but rather the type known in the British Isles 

 as Ananas d'Ete or King William Pear. Fruit above medium, obtuse-pyriform, yellowish- 

 green with brownish tinge next the sun and covered with large, rough, brown -russet dots; 

 flesh delicate, buttery, melting, with a pleasant, perfumed flavor; first; mid-Sept. 

 Andouille. i. Leroy Diet. Pom. 1:126, fig. 1867. 2. Mas Pom. Gen. 6:m, fig. 440. 

 1880.' 



The origin of this variety is unknown beyond the fact that it was cultivated near 

 Montfaucon, Maine-et-Loire, Fr., previous to 1850. At first it was known as the " Poly- 

 forme " owing to its very variable shape but was subsequently given its present name 

 which is that of a twist of tobacco. Fruit medium or rather large, conic-pyriform, but 

 often irregular and variable, sometimes much swelled below the middle, mammillate around 

 the calyx, yellow, washed with fawn; flesh white, rather fine and buttery, gritty, melting; 

 juice sweet and perfumed; second; late Sept. 

 Andrew Murray, i. Guide Prat. 80. 1895. 



Fruit small, ovate, yellow; flesh fine, melting, juicy; good; end of winter and spring. 

 Tree fertile and moderately vigorous. 

 Andrews, i. HoveyFr. Am. 1:97, PI. 1851. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 451, fig. 1857. 



Samuel Downer introduced this pear soon after the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society was organized in 1829. He stated " that it originated in Dorchester, and that the 

 original tree was purchased about 60 years ago by John Andrews of Boston." Fruit rather 

 large, pyriform, one-sided, pale yellowish-green, with a dull red cheek; flesh greenish- 

 white, full of juice, melting, having a vinous flavor; first; early Sept. 

 Ange. i. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:138. 1768. 2. Leroy Diet. Pom. 1:131, fig. 1867. 

 3. Hogg Fruit Man. 480. 1884. 



This is one of the most ancient varieties in France. At a very early date it was dedi- 

 cated to the " Angels " and later to the " Virgin Mary " and was known by the two names 

 simultaneously from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Fruit small to medium, 

 variable but generally more globular-turbinate than oblong or ovate, deep green changing 

 to yellow, dotted with gray, washed with red-brown on the side to the sun; flesh white, 

 melting, very juicy, sugary, acidulous, having a strong perfume of anis; first for dessert 

 and also for preserves; Aug. and Sept. 

 Angel, i. Thomas Am. Fruii Culi. 693. 1897. 



Originated at Ghent, N. Y. Fruit large, handsome; poor, early. 

 Angeline. i. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 2:134. 1856. 



A seedling of Van Mons, 1852. Fruit medium, often rather ovate, light green 

 changing to light yellow, somewhat blushed, finely dotted; flesh very fine, white, buttery, 

 sweet, tartish, juicy; first for table and market; late Aug. The tree is best grown as a 

 dwarf. 



