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gray-russet; flesh white, fine and juicy, melting, slightly gritty at the center, saccharine, 

 agreeably acid, with a delicious perfume; first; May. 

 Professeur Barral. i. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:565, fig. 1869. 



M. Boisselot, Nantes, Fr., a well known seedsman, obtained this pear from seeds 

 of Bartlett, in 1862. Fruit very large, globular, rather irregular and bossed; skin thick, 

 orange-yellow, dotted with gray and lightly washed with bright russet on the exposed side; 

 flesh whitish, fine or semi-fine, melting, watery; juice abundant, sugary, vinous, acidulous 

 and full of flavor; first; Oct. and beginning of Nov. 

 Professeur Bazin. i. Rev. Hort. 494. 1898. 



A posthumous variety raised from a seed bed of M. Tourasse and placed on the market 

 in 1898 by M. Baltet, Troyes, Fr. Fruit large, often very large, pyramidal, ventriculous 

 at the middle, water-green, passing to lemon-yellow, mottled with fawn-brown; flesh 

 extremely fine and melting, juicy, saccharine, with a delicate perfume; very good; Dec. 

 and Jan. 



Professeur Dubreuil. i. Pom. France 3: No. 97, PI. 97. 1865. 2. Hogg Fruit Man. 634. 

 1884. 



Obtained by M. Dubreuil, professor of horticulture, from a bed of seeds of Louise- 

 Bonne de Jersey made at the Botanical Garden of Rouen in 1840. Fruit medium, 

 pyriform, more or less swelled; skin rather thick, oily, green changing to lemon-yellow, 

 dotted with russet and carmined on the side of the sun; flesh white, fine, buttery, full of 

 sugary juice, with an agreeable perfume; first; end of Aug. and early Sept. 

 Professeur Grosdemange. i. Baltet Cult. Fr. 340, 342, fig. 243. 1908. 



Fruit large, obovate-pyriform; coloring bright yellow with vermilion blush; flesh of 

 good quality; Jan. to Mar. 

 Professeur Hennau. i. Ann. Pom. Beige 8:77, fig. 1860. 



M. Xavier Gre"goire, a tanner at Jodoigne, Bel., obtained this variety from seed. 

 Fruited in 1860. Fruit above medium, ovate, more or less irregular, swelled and bossed, 

 often a little contorted in its lower part, olive-yellow dotted with ashen gray, veined or 

 speckled with fawn and washed with golden russet on the cheek exposed to the sun; flesh 

 white, rather coarse, semi-melting, watery, very granular around the center; juice abundant, 

 saccharine, tartish, delicate although slight perfume; second; Nov. 

 Professeur Hortoles. i. Guide Prat. 57. 1895. 



Raised by M. F. Morel, a horticulturist at Lyons, Fr. Tree vigorous and fertile, 

 suitable for all forms of growth. Fruit rather large, pyriform-ventriculous, greenish- 

 yellow, blushed with brownish-red on the side next the sun; flesh white, fine, melting, 

 very juicy; first; Sept. and Oct. 

 Professeur Opoix. i. Rev. Hort. 532, fig. 240. 1901. 



A seedling from the establishment of Baltet Brothers, Troyes, Fr. Reported in 1901. 

 Fruit rather large, globular, slightly oval, a little bossed, bright green passing to whitish- 

 yellow, dotted with brown; flesh fine, yellow-butter tinted, very juicy, melting, saccharine, 

 with a pleasant aromatic perfume: excellent; Jan. to Mar. 

 Professeur Willermoz. i. Guide Prat. 98. 1895. 



Obtained by M. Joanon at Saint-Cyr near Lyons, Fr. Fruit large or rather large, 



