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as great as the length, warm yellow ground dotted all over with russet; flesh crisp, juicy, 

 sweet, the skin having something of a musky pineapple flavor; a handsome, fragrant fruit; 

 first for cooking; a good keeper; summer. 

 Chio. i. Miller Card. Diet. 3: 1807. 



Commonly called, according to Miller, the Little Bastard Musk Pear to distinguish 

 it from the Little Musk Pear. Fruit small, roundish, yellow when ripe, with a few streaks 

 of red on the side next the sun ; juice musky ; good ; July. 

 Choak-pear. i. Miller Card. Diet. 3 : 1807. 



The fruit of this pear is so acrid that it produces a choking sensation. Its flesh is red 

 and it is rarely cultivated. 

 Choisnard. i. Leroy Diet. Pom. 1:559, % 1867. 2. Guide Prat. 80. 1895. 



Found growing wild in the environs of Ormes-Sur-Vienne, Fr., about 1810. Fruit 

 above to medium, pyramidal-obtuse, rather wrinkled, dark yellow, dotted with fawn, 

 large gray marblings which pass to dark brown on the exposed side; flesh yellowish, semi- 

 melting, semi-fine, gritty at core; juice sufficient, sugary, tartish, savory, with a delicate, 

 musky flavor; first; Jan. to Mar. 

 Cholwell. i. Mag. Hort. 13:451. 1847. 



An English variety first described by the London Horticultural Society in 1847. Fruit 

 medium, curved pyramidal; skin smooth, thin, yellowish-green in the shade and partly 

 tinged and obscurely streaked with dull red next the sun where it is also speckled with pale 

 dots; flesh yellowish- white, melting, buttery, very sugary and rich, musky; Oct. 

 Christmas, i. Elliott Fr. Book. 371. 1859. 



Originated in Cincinnati, O., and described as " new " in 1859. Fruit medium, ovate- 

 rounded, rough, bronzed, russety; flesh a little gritty, juicy, sweet; very good; Dec. and Jan. 

 Christmas Beurre. i. Mass. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 158. 1874. 



A seedling of the White Doyenn6 shown in the Massachusetts Horticultural Society's 

 rooms in 1874. Fruit full medium size, ovate-pyriform, dull green, with thin russet towards 

 the stem and sometimes sprinkled with red next the sun; flesh rather gritty at core, juicy 

 and rich; very good to best; Dec. 

 Church, i. Mag. Hort. 23:112, fig. 5. 1857. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 19. 1869. 



Vanilla. 3. Watson Am. Home Card. 376, fig. 235. 1860. 



Reported by Downing to have originated on land belonging to Trinity Church at 

 New Rochelle, N. Y., hence its name; but Dr. Brinckle", in the second reference, says that 

 it was believed to be a seedling raised by an old Huguenot settler, and that the original 

 tree still existed on the premises of L. P. Miller, and was presumed to be nearly 100 

 years old. In 1859 Dr. Brinckle" and Prince and Ferris expressed the opinion that it 

 was identical with Plait's Bergamot and Mr. Colt thought the Clark pear of Hartford was 

 also the same. Fruit medium, globular-oblate, irregular, green becoming yellow at maturity, 

 with minute dots; flesh fine, very buttery, melting, with a very rich, sweet and highly 

 perfumed flavor; first; Sept. 

 Chypre. i. Leroy Diet. Pom. 1:561, fig. 1867. 2. Hogg Fruit Man. 571. 1884. 



Duhamel in 1768, Poiteau in 1848 and Dr. Hogg in 1884 make this pear synonymous 



with Early Roussekt. Leroy regards it as a separate variety. It is an ancient pear of 

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