508 THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 



Premature, i. Kenrick Am. Orch. 157. 1832. 



Originated in Scotland about 1830. Fruit below medium; flesh very juicy and 

 delicious, superior to the Crawford, of Scotland, reputed a most superior early fruit ; early 

 Aug. 



Premices d'Ecully. i. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:544, fig. 1869. 2. Hogg Fruit Map. 632. 

 1884. 



Obtained by M. Luizet, a nurseryman at Ecully-lez-Lyon, Rhone, Fr., from a bed of 

 mixed seeds made in 1847. Fruit rather large, irregular ovate, round and bossed, yellow, 

 with here and there a green tinge, thickly spotted and stained with small blotches of brown- 

 russet; flesh tender, whitish, fine, melting, juicy, easily becoming soft, sweet, saccharine, 

 with a flavor of musk; Sept. 

 Premices de Wagelwater. i. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 836. 1869. 



Fruit below medium, globular-obovate-pyriform, sides unequal, yellow with a few 

 traces of russet and thickly sprinkled with brown dots; flesh whitish, melting, juicy, very 

 sweet; good to very good; Oct. 

 Premier, i. Hogg Fruit Man. 632. 1884. 



Raised at the Royal Garden, Frogmore, Eng., and first exhibited in 1871. Fruit 

 above medium, oblong, terminating abruptly and bluntly at the stalk, undulating in out- 

 line and contracted with a waist at the middle ; skin covered with cinnamon-colored russet ; 

 flesh semi-melting, very juicy, sweet, and brisk, with a flavor resembling pineapple; good; 

 Nov. 

 Premier President Metivier. i. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:545, fig. 1869. 



A variety raised in Leroy's nurseries at Angers, Fr., in 1867. Fruit above medium or 

 large, globular, flattened at the poles, more enlarged on one side than on the other; skin 

 rough, grass-green, dotted and veined with olive-russet on the shaded side, and bronzed 

 and dotted with bright fawn on the face exposed to the sun; flesh very white, melting, fine 

 or semi-fine, free from granulations, very juicy, acidulous, highly saccharine, with delicious 

 perfume and flavor; first; Oct. 

 Present de Van Mons. i. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:546, fig. 1869. 



A seedling of Van Mons raised at Louvain, Bel., but which first fruited with General 

 Delaage at Angers, Fr., in 1844. Fruit large, turbinate, shortened and ventriculous in 

 its lower part, very much narrowed and slightly constricted at the top which is rarely very 

 obtuse, lemon-yellow, strewn with large gray dots, fully colored with dull red on the side 

 exposed to the sun; flesh white, fine, or semi-fine, melting, gritty below the core; juice 

 abundant; saccharine, sourish and vinous, with an aromatic flavor; first; Feb. to Apr. 

 President, i. Mass. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 44. 1865. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 836. 1869. 



A seedling raised by S. A. Shurtleff, Brookline, Mass., and fruited in 1861. Fruit very 

 large, globular-obovate, somewhat irregular; skin slightly rough, greenish-yellow, pale red 

 in the sun, considerable russet next the base of the stalk and traces of russet and con- 

 spicuous dots all over; flesh yellowish-white, rather coarse, melting, juicy, slightly vinous; 

 good; early Nov. 

 President Barabe. i. Guide Prat. 97. 1895. 2. Bunyard Handb. Hardy Fr. 193. 1920. 



First fruited in 1870 from a seed of Bergamotte Esperen with M. Sannier, Rouen, Fr. 



