574 THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 



' and vigorous but is a late and indifferent bearer and is apt to drop its fruit before ripe. 

 It is said that the fruit is very susceptible to absorbing odors and flavors and must be 

 stored near materials which will improve rather than impair the flavor. In Europe it 

 is regarded as an excellent dessert pear, but in this country it has not met with great 

 success. Fruit medium to large, pyriform, rounded towards the eye and tapering thickly 

 towards the stalk; skin smooth, delicate, lively green becoming a beautiful pale lemon- 

 yellow, sprinkled with numerous gray and red dots; calyx small, open, set in a small shallow 

 basin; stem an inch long, fleshy at the base, attached with no depression; flesh yellowish- 

 white, delicate, buttery, melting, very juicy, with a sugary and perfumed flavor; Nov. 

 to Jan. 

 Vital, i. Rev. Hort. 271, 425, figs, no, in. 1891. 



Beurre Vital. 2. Mathieu Norn. Pom. 185. 1889. 



Found near Pontoise, Fr., prior to 1890 by M. Vital. Tree vigorous, productive, 

 an annual bearer. Fruit 3^ in. long, 3 in. broad, resembling White Doyenne', unequal, 

 sloping towards both top and bottom but more towards the stem end; skin beautiful 

 golden-yellow in color; stem short; flesh whitish, melting, slightly granular, sweet, agreeably 

 perfumed; sometimes keeping as late as May. 



Vitrier. i. Duhamel Trail. Arb. Fr. 2:139, PI- XLIV, fig. 4. 1768. 2. Prince Pom. 

 Man. 1:106. 1831. 



Valerius Cordus, a botanist, who died in 1544, mentions a Pyrum Vitreum common 

 in Saxony, and it may be, then, that Vitrier is of this origin. Fruit large, oval, deep red 

 speckled with brown points on the sunny side and light green dotted with deeper green 

 on the shady side; stem moderately large, an inch long; flesh white but not very delicate, 

 agreeable; Nov. and Dec. 



Volkmarserbirne. i. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 2:13. 1856. 2. Lauche Deut. Pom. 

 H:No. 96. PL 96. 1883. 



Volkmarsen. 3. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:750, fig. 1869. 



It is thought that this pear may have originated near the town of Volkmarsen, Ger., 

 prior to 1795. Tree large, vigorous, hardy, very productive. Fruit small, oval, yellow, 

 almost entirely covered with brown, sprinkled with numerous dots of a brighter color; 

 calyx open; flesh half -melting, juicy, piquant, sweetish; Sept. 

 Von Zugler. i. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 877. 1869. 



Said by Downing in 1869 to be a new Belgian variety. Tree slender, productive. 

 Fruit medium, roundish-acute-pyriform, yellow, nearly covered with cinnamon-russet; 

 stem rather short, inclined in a slight depression by a fleshy lip; calyx small, open ; segments 

 short, erect; basin small- flesh white, juicy, melting, sweet, slightly aromatic; very good; 

 Sept. 



Voscovoya. i. la. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 320, 323. 1885. 2. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 60, 6r. 

 1887. 



Waxy. 3. la. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 323. 1885. 



A Russian variety introduced by the Iowa Agricultural College from P. J. Tretjakoff, 

 Orel, Russia, about 1883, and said to be " an extra fine pear." Professor Budd thought 

 it identical with Vosovoya or Waxen. 



