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covered with yellowish-gray russet, lighter yellow on the sunny side, with some red blush; 



flesh agreeable, with a Muscat flavor; third; Nov. and Dec. 



Passans du Portugal, i. Mag. Hort. 4:390. 1838. 2. Hogg Fruit Man. 626. 1884. 



Passans du Portugal would seem from its name to be of Portuguese origin. It should 

 not be confused with Summer Portugal although the two varieties have various synonyms 

 in common and have some qualities in common. Fruit medium, oblate, flattened after 

 the Bergamot type, lively green changing to pale yellow on ripening, red next the sun 

 brightening toward maturity to a more vivid shade; flesh white, breaking, juicy, with a 

 fine sugary and perfumed flavor; an excellent dessert pear; Aug. 

 Passe-Colmar des Beiges, i. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:502. 1869. 



Origin unknown but was found growing under this name in the collection of the Horti- 

 cultural Society of Angers early in the last century. Fruit above medium, turbinate- 

 obtuse and bossed, yellow, dotted and streaked with russet; flesh white, coarse, semi- 

 breaking, wanting in juice and sugar, sharp and acidulous; third; Nov. 

 Passe Colmar d'Ete. i. Guide Prat. 101. 1876. 



French. Fruit small, turbinate, olive-green; flesh very juicy; good; Sept. 

 Passe Colmar Musque. i. Ann. Pom. Beige 5:45, fig. 1857. 2. Hogg Fruit Man. 

 627. 1884. 



Obtained by Major EspeYen, Mechlin, Bel., from a bed of mixed seeds he made about 

 1831. It yielded its first fruit and was published in 1845. Passe Colmar Musque is also 

 known as Autumn Colmar but is distinct from the variety most usually known by that 

 name. Fruit medium and sometimes less, turbinate, otherwise obtuse-conic, rather variable 

 in form; skin thick, tender, green changing to golden-yellow, dotted, mottled and patched 

 with pale cinnamon-russet and often washed on the side next the sun with a light trans- 

 parent red; flesh slightly yellowish, very fine, melting, very saccharine, richly flavored, 

 aromatic and scented; first; Nov. 



Passe Crassane. i. Pom. France 2:No. 82, PI. 82. 1863. 2. Bunyard Handb. Hardy 

 Fr. 192. 1920. 



This winter pear was raised by M. Boisbunel, a nurseryman at Rouen, Fr., from a 

 bed of mixed seeds which he made in 1845; it bore fruit and was first published at Rouen 

 in 1855. Fruit medium or rather large, turbinate or globular-conic, flattened in Bergamot 

 fashion; skin rough, thick, of a dull pale green, mottled with russet markings and passing 

 to yellow on the side turned to the sun; flesh white, fine, melting, very juicy, saccharine, 

 perfumed, and agreeably sprightly; very good; Jan. to Mar. 

 Passe-Goemans. i. Mas Pom. Gen. 3:111, fig. 152. 1878. 



Goemans Celbe Sommerbirne. 2. Dochnahl Fw/tr. Obstkunde 2:91. 1856. 



Belgian, and probably from Van Mons in 1825. Fruit medium, globular, ventncu- 

 lous, sides unequal, very obtuse, uniformly citron-yellow, blushed with cinnamon on the 

 sun-exposed side; flesh very full of flavor; first; end of Sept. 

 Passe Madeleine, i. Mag. Hort. 9:131. 1843. 



Probably a French variety. Tree vigorous and very productive. Fruit medium, long, 

 lemon-yellow, lightly tinted with gray on the side next the sun; flesh melting, sugary, rather 

 perfumed; beginning of Sept. 



