THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 



523 



Roi de Rome. i. Ann. Pom. Beige 6:51, fig. 1858. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 843. 



1869. 



The AbbS Duquesnes, to whom we are beholden for many good fruits, found this 

 pear in Hainaut, Bel. Fruit very large, pyriform, pyramidal, olive-green, with dark gray 

 shading around the stalk and calyx, strongly blushed with orange-red and dotted with 

 bright gray on the side next the sun, and yellow at maturity on the shaded cheek, with 

 brown-black dots; flesh fine, semi-melting, yellowish-white; juice abundant, saccharine, 

 with an agreeable perfume; second for table, first for household; Sept. 

 Roitelet. i. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 843. 1869. 



A Flemish pear. Fruit small, globular, yellow, netted, shaded and sprinkled with 

 russet; flesh whitish, semi-melting, juicy, sweet; good; Sept. 

 Rokeby. i. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 844. 1869. 2. Mas Pom. Gen. 1:73, fig. 37. 1872. 



Gained by M. Bivort, Bel., and first published in 1848. Fruit medium or below, 

 pyriform, swelled in lower half, lower end flat, bright green turning to bright yellow in 

 the shade and blood-red on the cheek exposed to the sun; flesh white, semi-fine, juicy, 

 wanting in quality; second; Aug. and Sept. 

 Rolmaston Duchess, i. Horticulturist 29:148. 1874. 



Published in 1874. Fruit medium, pyriform, yellow-green; flesh fine, melting, juicy, 

 vinous; very good; Oct. 

 Ronde du Bosquet, i. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:586, fig. 1869. 



Raised from seed and bore the name of the place where the parent tree, which was 

 first described in 1863, grew in M. Leroy 's grounds, Angers, Fr. Fruit below medium, 

 irregularly globular and strongly bossed, bright yellow, dotted with brown, much mottled 

 with russet; flesh whitish, watery, very fine, melting, rarely gritty; juice abundant, vinous, 

 saccharine, possessing a delicious perfume; first; Oct. 

 Rondelet. i. Mag. Hort. 12:340. -1846. 2. Ibid. 18:436, fig. 32. 1852. 



Obtained in France by M. Frangois Dehove. Fruit medium, remarkably oblate, 

 with a slightly uneven surface, much flattened at each end; skin fair, smooth, green turning 

 yellow at maturity, faintly blushed on the side next the sun, and thickly dotted with russet 

 intermixed with a few greenish specks; flesh yellow-white, buttery, melting, juicy, saccharine 

 and musky; first; Oct. 

 Ropes, i. Mag. Hort. 12:500. 1846. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 844. 1869. 



Originated with Mr. Ropes, Salem, Mass., about 1846. Fruit medium, obovate, 

 cinnamon-russet; stem short; cavity inclined; calyx small, open, set in a shallow basin; flesh 

 whitish, coarse, melting, juicy, sugary, aromatic; good; Oct. and Nov. 

 Rorreger Mostbirne. i. Loschnig Mostbirnen 50, fig. 1913. 



An Austrian perry pear. Fruit large, globular-turbinate to pyriform; skin smooth, 

 shining green turning yellow, numerous small green dots; flesh whitish, rather coarse- 

 grained, subacid and very juicy; mid-Oct. and Nov. 

 Rosabirne. i. Horticulturist 8:65. 1853. 



A foreign pear introduced to this country as a new variety in the middle of the last 

 century. Fruit medium, obovate-acute-pyriform, surface uneven, dull greenish-yellow, 

 almost entirely overspread with russet; flesh white, melting and juicy, with a delicious, 



