512 THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 



Prince Imperial de France, i. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:554, fig. 1889. 2. Downing Fr. 

 Trees Am. 837. 1869. 



M. Gregoire, the well-known Belgian seedsman, obtained this variety at Jodoigne in 

 1850 from seed of Pastorale sown in 1835. Fruit above medium, irregular-ovate and rather 

 swelled, having one side usually more enlarged than the other, bright green, dotted, 

 streaked, patched and spotted with fawn-russet; flesh white, fine, juicy, melting, slightly 

 gritty below the core; juice abundant, refreshing, saccharine, acidulous, perfumed; first; 

 Sept. 

 Prince de Joinville. i. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 837. 1869. 



Belgian; first fruited in 1848. Fruit medium, globular, green changing to golden 

 yellow, with a vivid blush on the cheek next the sun, brown spots and some russet; flesh 

 yellowish-white, semi-fine, melting, acidulous, sweet, agreeably aromatic; first for dessert, 

 household and market; Nov. 



Prince Napoleon, i. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:556, fig. 1869. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 

 837. 1869. . 



Raised by M. Boisbunel, Rouen, Fr., from seed of the Passe Crassane in 1864. Fruit 

 medium and sometimes above, globular, rarely regular and often mammillate at the top, 

 olive-yellow, covered largely with mottlings of brown and sprinkled with indistinct gray 

 dots; flesh white-greenish or yellowish, semi-fine, semi-melting; juice sufficient, saccharine, 

 vinous, with a delicate perfume; first; Feb. and Mar. 

 Prince d'Orange. i. Mag. Hort. 21:146. 1855. 



Raised by Van Mons at Louvain and numbered 891 in his Catalog of 1823, second and 

 third series, and regarded by J. de Jonghe, Brussels, as one of Van Mons' more remarkable 

 fruits ; form and flavor of Passe Colmar. 

 Prince de Printemps. i. Kenrick Am. Orch. 198. 1832. 



A Flemish pear imported by a Mr. Braddick in 1819. Fruit small, turbinate, green; 

 flesh buttery, sweet; good; very late. 

 Prince Saint-Germain, i. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 447, fig. 207. 1845. 



Raised by William Prince, Flushing, Long Island, N. Y., and known also as Brown 

 Saint Germain. Fruit medium, obovate inclining to oval-pyriform, green nearly covered 

 with brownish-russet and blushed with dull red on the side next the sun; flesh yellowish- 

 white, melting, juicy, with a vinous and very agreeable flavor; very good; Nov. to Mar. 

 Prince Seed Virgalieu. i. Mas Pom. Gen. 7:163, fig. 562. 1881. 



Origin unknown. Fruit medium, turbinate-conic and ventriculous, usually regular in 

 form, pale green, slightly tinted with yellow, sprinkled with brownish-gray dots, small 

 but numerous; at maturity the basic green becomes brilliant lemon-yellow and the side 

 exposed to the sun washed with pale red; flesh white, fine, buttery, very melting; juice suffi- 

 cient, saccharine; good; Oct. 

 Princess, i. Jour. Hort. N. S. 3:260. 1882. 2. Bunyard Handb. Hardy Fr. 194. 1920. 



Raised by Messrs. Rivers, Sawbridgeworth, Eng., from seed of Louise Bonne de Jersey. 

 Growth compact, upright, free bearer, valuable for market culture, and one to be depended 

 upon in poor seasons; fine as a cordon. Fruit medium, long-pyriform, tapering almost to 

 stalk, not very symmetrical, smooth and shining, rarely russety, green and pale green with 



