5IO THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 



President Heron, i. Rev. Hort. 6. 1897. 



A new pear placed on the market in 1897 by Arsene Sannier, a nurseryman at Rouen, 

 Fr. Fruit medium; form recalling that of Urbaniste, obovate or oblong-obovate; flesh 

 very fine, juicy, and perfumed. 



President Mas. i. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 836. 1869. 2. Cat. Cong. Pom. France 

 333, fig. 1906. 



First reported in 1865 as having been raised by M. Boisbunel, horticulturist at Rouen, 

 Fr., and adopted by the Pomological Congress of France. Fruit large, sometimes very 

 large, ovate-conic-obtuse and bossed round the stalk; skin rough, yellowish-green, much 

 dotted with russet, marbled with fawn around the eye; flesh whitish, fine, melting, juicy 

 with a sugary flavor, vinous and very pleasantly perfumed; very good; Nov. to Jan. 

 President Muller. i. Guide Prat. 102. 1876. 



Published by M. Gre"goire, Jodoigne, Brabant, and on trial with Messrs. Simon- 

 Louis, Metz, Lorraine, in 1876. Fruit large; first; Nov. 

 President Olivier, i. Guide Prat. m. 1876. 



Gained by M. Gre"goire, Jodoigne, Bel., not long previous to 1876. 

 President d'Osmonville. i. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:547, fig. 1869. 2. Bunyard Handb. 

 Hardy Fr. 194. 1920. 



This variety was a posthumous gain of M. Le"on Leclerc, Laval, Fr., in 1834, an amateur 

 well known among French pomologists. Fruit medium, ovate-pyriform; skin smooth, 

 fine and tender, very pale green changing to pale yellow, more golden on the side of the sun, 

 or occasionally washed on the more-exposed fruits with a suggestion of rosy red ; flesh yellow, 

 very fine, entirely melting, filled with saccharine juice, vinous, and penetrated with a 

 lively musk flavor; first; Oct. 

 President Parigot. i. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:548, fig. 1869. 



A variety originated by Count Nouhes near Pauzauges in the Vendee, Fr., where the 

 seedling gave its first fruit in 1852. Fruit above medium, long-conic, narrowed in its upper 

 part and bossed; skin rather rough, orange-yellow, dotted with greenish-gray and exten- 

 sively washed with clear gray; flesh whitish, semi-fine, melting, watery, granular around 

 the core; juice abundant, very saccharine, vinous and with a delicious flavor; first; 

 Oct. 

 President Payen. i. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:549. 1869. 



This pear issued in 1860 from a seed bed made by M. Briffaut, SeVres, Fr. It was 

 awarded a silver medal in 1861 by the Horticultural Society of Paris. Fruit medium, 

 long-pyriform, golden-russet sometimes washed with a red blush; flesh fine, melting, juicy, 

 saccharine, perfumed, and of good flavor; of moderate merit; beginning of winter. 

 President Pouyer-Quertier. i. Guide Prat. in. 1876. 



A French pear dedicated to a President of the Horticultural Society of Rouen. Fruit 

 medium, rather long, covered with gray-russet; flesh very fine, juicy, saccharine; first; 

 Dec. and Jan. 

 President Royer. i. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:549, fig. 1869. 



M. Xavier Gre"goire, the Belgian tanner of Jodoigne, obtained this pear in 1762 when 

 it fruited for the first time. Fruit medium ; form recalling that of the quince, very bossed, 



