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at its lower part and generally more enlarged on one side than on the other; skin fine, 

 golden-yellow, sprinkled with large gray dots and some russet markings, and more or less 

 stained with clear brown around the stem; flesh white, semi-fine, melting, gritty at the center; 

 juice deficient; rather savory, but slightly acerb; second; mid- Aug. 



Madame Delmotte. i. Mass. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 139. 1871. 2. Mas Pom. Gen. 3:73, 

 fig. 133. 1878. 



Obtained by M. Gre"goire, Jodoigne, Bel. Fruit medium, obtuse-pyriform, dull green 

 dotted with greenish-gray; flesh white, or slightly tinted with yellow, very fine, buttery, 

 melting, full of sweet juice, delicately perfumed. 



Madame Ducar. i. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:376, fig. 1869. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 

 808. 1869. 



This was a posthumous gain of Major EspeYen, Mechlin, Bel., dating from 1846. 

 Fruit medium, globular-ovate, regular in form, slightly undulating around the summit; 

 skin fine, rather dull yellow, finely dotted and streaked with fawn; flesh white, coarse, semi- 

 melting, very gritty; juice sufficient, sugary, sweet, almost without perfume but having a 

 certain delicacy of taste; second; end of Aug. 

 Madame Duparc. i. Mas Pom. Gen. 4:149, fig. 267. 1879. 



Gained by M. Bessard-Duparc, near Savenay, Fr., and fruited first about 1845. Fruit 

 medium, ovate-obtuse-pyriform, regular in contour; skin rather thick, lively green, speckled 

 with indistinct darker green spots, the green becoming brighter at maturity, a rather dense 

 russet sometimes covering the calyx and the summit; flesh white, coarse, semi-buttery, 

 gritty around the core; juice rather deficient, sugary and only slightly scented; indifferent; 

 Oct. and Nov. 



Madame Durieux. i. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:377, % 1869. 2. Hogg Fruit Man. 609. 

 1884. 



A variety which came from the seed beds of Van Mons but did not fruit till 1845. 

 Fruit medium, globular, rather Bergamot-shaped, grayish or greenish-yellow, covered 

 with patches of thin cinnamon-colored russet, yellowish, semi-fine, very melting, buttery, 

 juicy, sugary, vinous, aromatic; first; Oct. 



Madame filisa. i. Ann. Pom. Beige 4:31, fig. 1856. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 808, 

 fig. 1869. 



Raised in the seed beds of Van Mons and first bore fruit in 1848. Fruit large, obtuse- 

 pyriform, often rather irregular in its upper half, greenish-yellow passing to lemon-yellow 

 at maturity, with numerous small blackish-gray dots; flesh white, a little yellow next the 

 skin, fine, melting, free from grit, full of rich saccharine juice, vinous; first; Sept. to 

 Nov. 

 Madame filisa Dumas, i. Mas Pom. Gen. 5:19, fig. 298. 1880. 



A seedling raised by M. Bonnefoy, near Lyons, Fr. He disseminated it in 1857. Fruit 

 medium, conic-ovate, regular in contour; skin thick, at first whitish-green speckled with 

 grayish-black dots, changing to pale yellow, and more golden on the side next the sun; 

 sometimes stains of rough brown-russet are dispersed over its surface; flesh white, only 

 slightly firm without being breaking, rather gritty around the center, full of sugary juice, 

 vinous and refreshing; handsome and of good quality; Aug. 



