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medium, variable in form, ovate-obtuse and swelled in lower half, or long-pyriform, nar- 

 rowed toward the stalk; skin thick, smooth, bright green changing as it ripens to yellowish- 

 green, strewed with small dots and some markings of russet; flesh greenish-white, coarse, 

 semi-melting, gritty at center, juicy, only slightly saccharine, generally sweetish and 

 deficient in perfume; variable for dessert, but first for compotes; Dec. 

 Louise Bonne d'Avanches Panachee. i. Hogg Fruit Man. 607. 1884. 



A variegated form of Louise Bonne de Jersey, the wood and fruit being marked with 

 golden stripes. It originated as a bud sport. 



Louise-Bonne de Printemps. i. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:359, n g- 1869. 2. Downing Fr. 

 Trees Am. 804. 1869. 



Obtained by M. Boisbunel, Rouen, Fr., and first published in 1857. Fruit above 

 medium, long obtuse-pyriform, regular in contour, mammillate at summit and slightly 

 bossed at base, yellow-ochre, dotted with greenish-gray; flesh semi-fine and semi-melting, 

 white, gritty around the center, very juicy, rarely sugary, slightly sweet and slightly aro- 

 matic; grafted on pear and trained on espalier in a good situation it is a pear of high merit; 

 Feb. to Apr. 



Louise Bonne Sannier. i. Guide Prat. no. 1876. 2. Cat. Cong. Pom. France 291, fig. 

 1906. 



M. Sannier, Rouen, Fr., obtained this pear; it was first reported in 1868. Fruit rather 

 small or medium, oval, obliquely obtuse near the stem, dark yellow, touched with bright 

 red; flesh yellow, juicy, melting, remarkably saccharine, sprightly and perfumed; good to 

 very good; Oct. to Dec. 



Louise de Boulogne. I. Barry Fr. Garden 317. 1851. 2. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:361. 

 1869. 



Described by Barry in 1851 among " new and rare pears, recently introduced, that 

 give promise of excellence." Leroy wrote of it as a seedling of Van Mons. Fruit large, 

 breaking, keeps through the winter. 

 Louise Dupont. I. Ann. Pom. Beige 2:59, fig. 1854. 2. Mag. Hort. 23:301. 1857. 



Louise Dupont was the product of one of the last seedlings raised by Van Mons and 

 was harvested for the first time in 1853. Fruit rather large, sometimes of Doyenn( form 

 but usually longer and more turbinate; skin thin, dull green passing to golden yellow at 

 maturity, colored with russet-fawn on the sunny side, dotted and marked with fawn all 

 over; flesh white, semi-fine, melting, full of juice, saccharine and well perfumed; first; Oct. 

 and Nov. 

 Louise d'Orleans. i. Horticulturist 1:140. 1846. 2. Ann. Pom. Beige 2:35, fig. 1853. 



From seed sown by Van Mons in 1827 at Louvain and first bore fruit in 1843. Fruit 

 medium, oblong-obtuse; skin is of a fine bronzed-green, covered with gray speckles; flesh 

 very white, fine grained and very melting; juice exceedingly rich, sugary and delicious; 

 early Nov. 

 Louise de Prusse. x. Leroy Did. Pom. 2:362, fig. 1869. 



Obtained by Van Mons and published by him in September, 1832, but it had already 

 been reported in 1826. Fruit large, turbinate-obtuse, more or less long, considerably 

 swelled toward its lower end; skin thick and rough, yellow-ochre clouded with green, 



