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fumed flavor; very good, but is gritty and worthless if grown on cold, moist soil; Nov. 



to Mar. 



Saint Germain Gris. i. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:623, n g- 1869. 



Found by M. PreVost, long president of the Horticultural Society of Seine-Inferieure, 

 Fr., in the ancient garden of the Friars of Saint-Ouen, at Rouen, about the year 1804. 

 Fruit medium to large, long-ovate, irregular in its upper part and often bossed and elevated 

 more on one side of the stalk than on the other, grayish-green dotted with brown; flesh 

 yellowish, semi-fine, melting, saccharine, juicy, slightly acidulous, with a deliciously scented 

 flavor; first; mid-Dec, and Jan. 

 Saint Germain Panache, i. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:625. 1869. 



This variegated variety of Saint Germain is of French origin; the date of its publication 

 is about 1819. Fruit simply a variegated form of the Saint Germain, covered with rather 

 large bands of bright yellow sometimes extending from stem to calyx. 

 Saint Germain de Pepins. i. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 850. 1869. 



Foreign. Origin unknown. Fruit medium, nearly globular or obovate, slightly 

 pyriform, pale yellow, lightly shaded or mottled with crimson in the sun, netted and patched 

 with russet and thickly sprinkled with russet dots; flesh yellowish, coarse and gritty, with 

 a hard core; good; Feb. 

 Saint Germain Puvis. i. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:625, fig. 1869. 



M. Pariset, Curciat-Dongalon, Fr., obtained this variety in 1842. Fruit above 

 medium, long-conic, obtuse, irregular, much bossed, grass-green, clouded with olive-yellow, 

 sprinkled with small gray dots; flesh whitish, semi-fine, watery and melting, almost free 

 from granulations; juice rather deficient, saccharine, acidulous, agreeable; second; end of 

 Sept. and Oct. 

 Saint Germain du Tilloy. i. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:626, fig. 1869. 



The origin of this pear is unknown though Leroy thought that its name indicated 

 origin in the Department of the Nord where it formerly existed in important nurseries 

 and where are two towns bearing the name Tilloy. Fruit medium and above, long-conic 

 or cylindrical-conic, very obtuse, rather variable, golden-yellow, clouded with olive-yellow, 

 covered with gray dots and speckles, always rather squamose, more or less washed with 

 cinnamon-russet on the side next the sun; flesh white, semi-fine and semi-melting, gritty 

 at center; juice abundant, sugary, acidulous, aromatic; first; mid-Oct. to end of Nov. 

 Saint Germain Van Mons. i. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:628, fig. 1869. 



Van Mons Hermannsbirne. 2. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 2 : 60. 1856. 



The parent tree of this variety was a seedling raised by Van Mons at Brussels which 

 fruited for the first time in 1 8 1 9 . Fruit rather above medium or medium, obovate-pyrif orm, 

 one side habitually more swelled than the other, yellow-ochre, sprinkled with numerous 

 gray and green dots; flesh yellowish, semi-fine and semi-melting, very granular at the 

 core; juice rarely abundant, sugary, acidulous, rather savory; second; Oct. 

 Saint Ghislain. i. Hovey Fr. Am. 2:45, fig. 1851. 2. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:629, fig. 

 1869. 



This pear was raised at the village of Jammapes, Hainaut, Bel., by M. Dorlain and 

 was propagated by Van Mons and others. Fruit medium; form irregular, globular gourd- 



