558 THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 



smooth, pale lemon-yellow with a very few minute dots and rarely a little faint red on the 

 sunny side; flesh white, exceedingly fine-grained and buttery, abounding with delicious 

 highly flavored, aromatic juice, differing from that of the Doyenne"; first; Oct. 

 Surprise, i. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 41. 1916. 



Surprise is a valuable blight-resistant variety belonging to Pyrus communis and 

 promises to make a blight-resistant stock on which to top-work commercial varieties. 

 Siisse Margarethenbirne. i. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 2:53. 1856. 



Germany; first published in 1833. Fruit medium, pyriform, light yellow, often 

 blushed with light red and thickly dotted; flesh semi-melting, granular, sweet, agreeably 

 cinnamon-flavored; second for dessert, good for household and market; Aug. 

 Siisse Sommerlahnbirne. i. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obsikunde 2:52. 1856. 



German; published in 1805. Fruit fairly large, variable in form, ovate, often conic 

 and ventriculous-pyriform, sides rather unequal, dull greenish-yellow turning to a fine 

 citron-yellow, without any blush but russeted on the side next the sun, indistinct dots; 

 flesh not juicy, saccharine, with flavor of black currant; second for dessert, very good for 

 kitchen use and market; Aug. 

 Suwanee. i. Griffing Bros. Cat. 13, fig. 1909. 



Originated in southern Georgia and introduced by Griffing Brothers Company in 

 1909. Fruit large, oblong, tapering towards both ends, blunt; skin tough, dark golden- 

 russet over a yellow ground, with a slight tinge of red; flesh white, crisp, tender; good. 

 Suzanne, i. Mas. Pom. Gen. 3:129, fig. 161. 1878. 



Received by Oberdieck from Van Mons without a name. Fruit rather small, ovate, 

 short and ventriculous, symmetrical in contour with its greatest diameter about the center; 

 skin delicate, bright green, sprinkled with extremely numerous small brown spots, changing 

 to pale yellow, golden on the side next the sun or sometimes touched with red; flesh white, 

 tinted with yellow, very fine, buttery, melting, sufficiently juicy, saccharine and delicately 

 perfumed; good; Sept. 



Suzette de Bavay. i. Pom. France 2: No. 80, PI. 80. 1863. 2. Downing Fr. Trees 

 Am. 865. 1869. 



Major Esperen of Mechlin, Bel., obtained this long-season pear. It fruited first in 

 1843. Fruit small or medium, globular, generally mammillate at the top; skin rough, 

 pale yellow, dotted with greenish-brown and speckled with russet and reddish stains; 

 flesh white, semi-fine, melting or semi-melting, juicy, almost free from grit; juice abundant, 

 saccharine, acidulous, more or less perfumed with anis; Jan. to Apr. 

 Swan Egg. i. Langley Pomona 132, PL LXIV. 1729. 



An English variety recommended by Lindley as suitable in the Highlands of Scotland. 

 Fruit medium, globular-ovate; skin smooth, yellowish-green on the shaded side and clear 

 brownish-red on the cheek exposed to the sun and covered with pale brown-russet; flesh 

 yellowish-white, tender, very juicy, with a sweet and piquant flavor and musky aroma; 

 good; Oct. 

 Sweater, i. Parkinson Par. Ter. 593. 1629. 



' The Sweater is somewhat like the Windsor, for colour and bigeness but nothing 

 neare of so good a taste." 



