THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 403 



Gregoire Bordillon. x. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:237, % 1869. 2. Bunyard Handb. Hardy 

 Fr. 178. 1920. 



Raised by Leroy in 1855 from seed of Graslin, and fruited for the first time in 1866. 

 Fruit large, ovate, rather larger on one side than the other, pale yellow on shaded side 

 and dark yellow on the exposed cheek, mottled, striped, and dotted with brown; flesh 

 yellowish, fine, very melting, very juicy and sugary; first; Aug. 

 Grey Good-Wife. I. Mawe-Abercrombie Univ. Card. Bot. 1778. 



Fruit medium, globular, brown-red, moderately tender and of good flavor; Oct. to Dec. 

 Grise-Bonne. i. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:245. *78. 2. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:238, 

 fig. 1869. 



Franzosische Cute Graue Sommerbirne. 3. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 2: 16. 1856. 



The Dutch pomologist Pierre Van den Hoven writing in the middle of the eighteenth 

 century affirmed that the Grise-Bonne was the Sucrce Grise de Hollandaise and the Pirum 

 Falernum of the Romans. It may be noted that in 1586 Jacques Dale"champ thought 

 he had found the Falernum in the French Autumn Bergamote; and, again, in 1783 Henri 

 Manger declared it to be still cultivated under the name Bourdon, the Orange Musquee; 

 similarly Sickler wrote in 1802 that the Bergamote d'te appeared to him to be the 

 Falernum. Fruit medium; form variable, sometimes irregular- turbinate, long and ventric- 

 ulous, at other times regular-turbinate, clear green, russeted with gray, clouded with 

 pale yellow on the shaded side and covered with large dots of golden or orange-yellow; 

 flesh white, fine, dense, semi-breaking, watery, free from grit; juice very abundant, sugary, 

 acidulous, musky; second; Aug. 

 Groom Prince Royal, i. Card. Chron. 54, 161. 1841. 2. Hogg Fruit Man. 589. 1884. 



Bergamotte Eliza Mathews. 3. Leroy Diet. Pom. 1:235, n g- 1867. 



Princesse-Royale. 4. Leroy Dici. Pom. 2:561. 1869. 



A Mr. Groom, a nurseryman at Clapham near London, introduced this pear in 1841. 

 Fruit medium, globular or Bergamot-shaped, greenish-brown, with a tinge of yellow and 

 slight traces of gray-russet; flesh melting, buttery, sometimes rather gritty, sweet, vinous, 

 perfumed; a good second-rate pear; Jan. to Mar. 

 Gros Blanquet Long. i. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:241, fig. 1869. 



Large Blanquet. 2. Hogg Fruit Man. 602. 1884. 



Kreisel/ormige Blankette. 3. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 244. 1889. 



This is one of a group of pears which in the seventeenth century were designated by 

 various pomologists with names such as Blanquet a longue queue, Blanquet d'hiver, etc. 

 Their origin is ancient, possibly Roman. The variety here described is the largest of the 

 Blanquettes and was said by Olivier de Serres in 1600 to be also named de Florence from 

 which it might be adduced that it came originally from Tuscany. Fruit below medium 

 and often small, obtuse-pyriform, smooth, of a beautiful yellow color, dotted with bright 

 green and sometimes carmined on the cheek next the sun; flesh white, semi-fine, breaking, 

 sweet, full of sugary juice possessing a musky-anis flavor; a dessert pear, second; July 

 and Aug. 

 Gros Blanquet Rond. i. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:242, fig. 1869. 



An ancient dessert pear mentioned by Claude Saint-Etienne in the seventeenth century 



