476 THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 



of Philadelphia. Fruit medium, variable in form, some globular, others obovate, uniform 

 light yellow, with patches and dots of russet; flesh whitish, buttery, melting, coarse, sweet; 

 with a rich, spicy and delicious flavor; good to best; Aug. and Sept. 

 Mrs. Seden. i. Garden 76:36, figs. 1912. 



A cross between Seckel and Bergamotte Esp6ren; exhibited by James Veitch and 

 Sons, Chelsea, Eng., before the Royal Horticultural Society in January, 1912, and received 

 an award of merit. Fruit small, round, yellow, toning to a bright crimson on the sunny 

 side; flesh is free from the grittiness which sometimes characterizes the fruits of 

 Bergamotte Espe"ren; the flavor is remarkably fine; Jan. 

 Muddy Brook, i. Mass. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 45. 1866. 



A seedling from S. A. Shurtleff of Brookline, Mass., which fruited in 1862. Fruit 

 diameter 2\ inches, short pyriform; skin dark green; flesh white, melting and juicy, with 

 good flavor; great bearer and good market pear; Sept. 

 Muir Everbearing, i. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 135. 1920. 



Originated with Hal Muir, Bloomfield, Ky., about 1870. Reported as " delicious; 

 August to November." 

 Mungo Park. i. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 2:160. 1856. 2. Guide Prat. 100. 1876. 



A seedling of Van Mons named after the celebrated Scotch voyager. Fruit small, 

 turbinate-pyriform or globular-ovate, very pale green sprinkled with fawn dots, very small, 

 numerous, and feebly visible, the basic green passing at maturity to pale whitish-yellow 

 and becoming a little golden on the side of the sun; flesh white, very fine, melting, free from 

 grit, full of sugary juice, sprightly and agreeably perfumed; first; Oct. 

 Munz Apothekerbirne. i. Card. Chron. 3rd Ser. 30:370. 1891. 



Presumably German. A medium-sized pear, obovate, oblong, with a stalk rather more 

 than an inch long, continuous with the fruit, yellowish; flesh white; of good flavor; Aug. 

 Muscadine. I. Mag. Hort. 1:364. 1835. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 818. 1869. 



The original tree is supposed to have grown on the farm of a Dr. Fowler near New- 

 burgh, N. Y., and the pear was introduced to notice by Downing. Fruit medium, globular- 

 obovate, regular in form, pale yellowish-green, thickly sprinkled with brown dots; flesh 

 white, buttery, semi-melting, with an agreeable rich, musky flavor; good to very good, a 

 valuable late summer variety; end of Aug. and beginning of Sept. 



Muscat Allemand d'Automne. i. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:437, fig. 1869. 2. Mathieu Nam. 

 Pom. 256. 1889. 



Found in the Horticultural Society's Garden at Angers, Fr., in 1833. Its origin is 

 uncertain but the name indicates that it came from Germany. Fruit medium and sometimes 

 below, rather variable in form, from long-pyriform, slightly obtuse and regular in contour, 

 to irregular-ovate and strongly bossed, somber yellow, dotted with clear gray, extensively 

 washed with russet, and vermilioned on the side exposed to the sun; flesh white, semi-fine, 

 melting, rather granular, watery; juice abundant and saccharine, vinous, musky and 

 almost always marred by too great an acidity; second; Oct. 



Muscat Fleuri d'Ete. i. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:121. 1768. 2. Leroy Diet. Pom. 

 2:441, fig. 1869. 



Known at Orleans at the end of the sixteenth century under the name Muscat a 



