358 THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 



in sun; flesh white, fine-grained, tender, almost melting, with sweet, delicious flavor; Oct. 



and Nov. 



Denis Dauvesse. i. Guide Prat. no. 1876. 



Fruit medium to large, long-pyriform; flesh fine, melting, pleasantly perfumed; Sept. 

 Des Chartreux. i. MasLe Verger 2:171, fig. 84. 1866-73. 



Origin uncertain. Fruit small or nearly medium, obovate-obtuse-pyriform, light green, 

 speckled with dots of a very deep green, washed with light red on the sunny side ; flesh slightly 

 yellow, fine, more firm than breaking; juice sugary, acidulous, slightly perfumed; second; 

 Aug. 

 Des Deux Sceurs. i. Card. Chron. 463. 1863. 



The original tree was found in the garden of the Misses Knopp of Mechlin, Bel. Fruit 

 medium, oblong, lemon-yellow; flesh melting, juicy, sugary, slightly astringent but wanting 

 in perfume and flavor; grown both in Belgium and France; not first class. 

 Desire Cornells, i. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:18, fig. 1869. 2. Hogg Fruit Man. 560. 1884. 



The parent tree was from seed sown by Van Mons; first bore fruit in 1847. Fruit 

 large, oblong-oval, obtuse; skin very fine, pale yellow and often orange-yellow, dotted 

 and netted with greenish-gray; flesh very tender, buttery, melting; juice plentiful, sugary, 

 deliciously perfumed ; first ; Sept. 

 Dessauer Weissbirne. i. Dochnahl Fw&r. Obstkunde 2:35. 1856. 



North German, 1804. Fruit medium, smooth, pale greenish-yellow changing to citron 

 yellow, sometimes rather lightly blushed; flesh fine, somewhat soft, sweet, aromatic; good; 

 Aug. 

 Deutsche Augustbirne. i. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 202. 1889. 



D'Aout Allemande. 2. Mas Pom. Gen. 7:65, fig. 513. 1881. 



A German variety much cultivated in Saxony. Fruit small, ovate; skin rather thick, 

 dull green, sprinkled with small and numerous gray dots, becomes yellow on ripening and 

 somewhat blushed in the sun; flesh green and veined with green, semi-fine, buttery; juice 

 sufficient, sugary, vinous, acid, pleasant; good; Aug. 

 Deutsche Glasbirne. I. Dochnahl Fiihr. Obstkunde 2:69. 1856. 



German, 1811. Fruit medium, globular-turbinate, bent toward stalk, uniformly 

 light yellow, blushed with russety-red on the side of the sun ; flesh sweet ; -good ; Sept. 

 Deutsche Ktimmelbirne. i. Dochnahl Fiihr. Obstkunde 2:157. 1856. 



German, 1802. Fruit small, globular, dirty yellow, washed with russet; flesh very 

 tender, sweet, strongly aromatic and perfumed; good; Sept. 



Deutsche Muskateller. i. Liegel Syst. Anleit. 106. 1825. 2. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 202. 

 1889. 



Muscat Allemand d'Hiver. 3. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:439, fig. 1869. 



German Muscat. 4. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 772. 1869. 



An, old pear of uncertain origin. La Quintinye mentioned it without description 

 in 1690, but in 1768 Duhamel du Monceau gave a careful description to distinguish between 

 it and Roy ale d'Hiver which it somewhat resembles. Fruit medium or above, obovate- 

 obtuse-pyriform, pale yellow, speckled with numerous large, gray dots; flesh yellowish, 

 semi-fine, semi-melting, juicy, granular, sweet, slightly astringent; second; Mar. to May. 



