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first under the name Angleterre parfumee and was so published in 1835, but for some reason 

 was renamed. Fruit rather above than below medium, turbinate, obtuse, swelled and 

 always more enlarged on one side than on the other; skin rough to the touch, dull green, 

 uniformly dotted with clear russet; flesh whitish, fine, breaking, gritty at the center; juice 

 abundant, fresh, sweet, with a musky savor; first; Sept. and Oct. 



Angobert. i. Leroy Diet. Pom. 1:142, fig. 1867. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 661. 

 1869. 



A Gobert. 3. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:191. 1768. 



Toward the end of the eighteenth century, 1780-83, Henri Manger claimed that he 

 had identified the Angobert with the Signina or Testacea of Columella and Pliny. Fruit 

 very large, variable but generally obovate-pyriform, distorted, enlarged around the calyx 

 end, dull yellow, dotted and streaked with fawn, washed with red on the side of the sun; 

 flesh white, coarse, juicy, sweet, having a rather agreeable after-flavor of musk; third for 

 the table but first for the kitchen. 

 Angoisse. x. Leroy Diet. Pom. 1:145, fig. 1867. 



Winter Bon Chretien. 2. Hogg Fruit Man. 666. 1884. 



This is one of the most ancient French pears having been described in the year 1094 

 in a chronological manuscript attributed to Geoffrey, the Prior of the Benedictine monastery 

 of Vigeois in the Diocese of Limoges, in which it was stated to have derived its name from 

 the village of Angoisse in the old Province of Limonsin, Fr. Fruit small to medium, turbi- 

 nate, obtuse, swelled, golden-yellow, dotted, marbled with fawn and washed with brownish- 

 red on the side to the sun; flesh whitish, slightly melting, coarse, always very gritty at 

 the center; juice excessively abundant, acidulous, sugary; third for dessert, second for 

 cooking, first for cider; Dec. to Apr. 

 Angora, x. Leroy Diet. Pom. 1:147, fig. 1867. 2. Mas Pom. Gen. 5:35, fig. 306. 1880. 



This is a member of a group of pears rather loosely termed Pound Pears. By some 

 authors Angora is given as a synonym for Belle Angevine or Uvedale's St. Germain. In an 

 account of a voyage he undertook in 1700 on command of King Louis XIV of France, 

 M. Tournefort, thenoted botanist, states that he saw at Beibasas, Asia Minor, the pears 

 known in Constantinople as Angora. In 1832, Lon Leclerc imported it into France 

 from Constantinople, having obtained it with difficulty through the French Amabassador 

 at the Golden Horn. Fruit above medium to large, pyriform, obtuse, swelled around 

 the center, rather irregular in form; skin thick, hard to cut, pale yellow, finely dotted with 

 fawn and bearing some patches of fawn; flesh white, rather coarse, semi-melting, gritty 

 at the center; juice plentiful and rich in sugar after the manner of sweet wine, little perfume; 

 second; Oct. and Nov. 

 Angoucha. i. Guide Prai. 82. 1876. 2. Mas Pom. Gen. 7:43, fig. 502. 1881. 



Originated in the Department of the Aube, France. In the arrondisements of Troyes 

 and Bar-sur-Seine it is also called Courte queue i. e. " Short Stem; " and by M. Baltet- 

 Petit, it was described in the " Annales de Flore et Pomone," under the name Belle Chaouce, 

 the name of the canton where it was very generally cultivated. Fruit medium, obtuse- 

 conic-ovate, regular in contour, dark green sprinkled with numerous regularly spaced, 

 brown dots often comingled under a cloud of russet of same color, at maturity the green 



