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THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 



This old pear is of consequence only on account of the color of its flesh. According 

 to Claude Mollet, 1810, it was imported to France from Switzerland. It was known in 

 Germany in 1500. Fruit below medium or small, variable in form, turbinate-obtuse, or 

 globular, bossed; skin rather thick and rough, green dotted with gray and red, sprinkled 

 with streaks and patches of russet, and sometimes slightly carmined on the face exposed 

 to the sun; flesh transparent, red, semi-fine, semi-breaking, juicy, saccharine, acidulous, 

 more or less musky, agreeable; second, sometimes third, the flesh decomposing rapidly; 

 Aug. and Sept. 

 Sanguinole de Belgique. i. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 852. 1869. 



Belgische Blutbirne. 2. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkwide 2:67. 1856. 



Raised by M. Berckmans, a Belgian nurseryman who came to the United States but 

 also maintained the original establishment, where this seedling was produced in 1851. It 

 is of interest only on account of its rose-tinted flesh. Fruit medium, long-ovate, vivid 

 yellow, blushed and dotted with red, with some brown-russet; flesh yellowish- white, tinted 

 with red, semi-melting, saccharine and highly aromatic; second for the table; Oct. and 

 early Nov. 

 Sans-Pareille du Nord. i. Leroy Did. Pom. 2:648, fig. 1869. 



Unvergleichliche. 2. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 291. 1889. 



A French variety described first in 1847. Its origin is unknown. Fruit large and some- 

 times very large, very long, cylindrical and contorted, often slightly constricted in the 

 middle like Calebasse; skin thin, lemon-yellow, sprinkled with large gray dots, some fine 

 patches of fawn, more or less tinted with vivid rose on the face opposed to the sun; flesh 

 very white, semi-breaking and semi-fine; juice never abundant, sweetish, rather saccharine, 

 wanting in perfume, but yet having a slight characteristic flavor; third for dessert, first 

 for compotes; Nov. to Jan. 



Sans Peau. i. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:150, PI. XIII. 1768. 2. Hogg Fruit Man. 

 644. 1884. 



Skinless. 3. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 856. 1869. 



Of ancient and uncertain origin; the first certain French description was written by 

 La Quintinye in 1690. Fruit below medium or small, ovate, more or less long but always 

 regular; skin exceedingly thin, and slightly rough to the touch, yellow-white, sprinkled 

 with dots of darker green and often washed with pale rose on the sun-exposed side on 

 which the dots are gray; flesh yellowish, coarse, melting, watery; juice sufficient, 

 saccharine, acidulous, feebly perfumed; second; Aug. 

 Santa Anna, i. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 68. 1895. 



Originated in Santa Anna, California. Fruit large, obtuse-pyriform, yellow-rus- 

 seted; flesh tough, highly perfumed; first; season late. 

 Santa Claus. i. Garden 67:17, 35. 1905. 2. Bunyard Hand b. Hardy Fr. 197. 1920. 



Colonel Brymer, Dorchester, Eng., introduced this pear to the notice of the Royal 

 Horticultural Society in 1905 explaining that the parent tree had come originally from 

 Belgium some thirty years previously. Fruit medium, conical, slightly pyriform, fairly 

 even, slightly rough, dull brown-red, practically covered with russet; stem long, slender; 



