586 THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 



Knight with the remarks that it requires to be gathered before it is quite ripe and that it 



is a variety of first-rate excellence in Herefordshire, Eng. In 1842 it was listed as having 



been removed from the gardens of the London Horticultural Society because of inferior 



merit. 



Wurzer. i. Liegel Syst. Anleit. 114. 1825. 



Wurzer d'Automne. 2. Mag. Hort. 16:296. 1850. 2. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 240. 



1854. 



Reported from Belgium about 1821. Tree vigorous, leafy, thorny. Fruit rather 

 large, pyriform, solid green, becoming covered with russet, heavily dotted with reddish- 

 brown ; calyx small, set in a shallow basin ; stem medium long, fleshy, set in a rather deep 

 cavity; flesh pithy, sweet, vinous; Nov. 

 Yat. i. Lindley Guide Orch. Card. 351. 1831. 2. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:762, fig. 1869. 



Cute Graue. 3. Liegel Syst. Anleit. 124. 1825. 



Beurre Gris d'Ete de Hollande. 4. Mas Le Verger 2:85, fig. 41. 1866-73. 



Beurre Gris d'Ete. 5. Guide Prat. 70, 245. 1876. 



This pear is said to have been brought to England from Holland about 1770 by 

 Thomas Harvey. It is not to be confused with the Grise-Bonne. Tree large, vigorous, 

 hardy, very productive. Fruit variable, small to above medium, obovate-pyriform to 

 oblong-turbinate, green, thickly covered with russet, sprinkled with numerous gray 

 specks, sometimes colored brownish-red when exposed to the sun ; calyx small, open, set 

 in a shallow basin; stem rather long, slender, obliquely inserted without depression 

 and often by a fleshy protuberance; flesh white, tender, melting, juicy with a rich, 

 sugary and highly perfumed flavor; rated as of little value by Downing, of first quality 

 by Mas, as highly estimable by the Germans, and as an excellent early pear by Hogg; 

 Aug. and Sept. 

 Yellow Huff-cap, i. Hogg Fruit Man. 669. 1884. 



A Herefordshire perry pear. Fruit quite small, obovate or turbinate, entirely covered 

 with rough brown russet, and with only portions of the ground color showing through 

 in specks; calyx small, open, with short horny segments, set even with the surface; stem 

 rather long, inserted without depression; flesh yellowish, with a greenish tinge. 

 Youngken Winter Seckel. 



According to correspondence this pear was raised from seed of Seckel by David 

 Youngken, Richlandtown, Pa., about 1868. The tree is reported as being upright and 

 prolific, and the fruit as keeping through the winter. 

 Zache. i. Mich. Sta. Bui. 177:39. 1899. 2. Ibid. 187:75. 1901. 



A Chinese sand pear, of value only as a novelty, grown at the South Haven 

 Substation of the Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station in 1894. Tree a fine, 

 strong grower with large, thick, glossy leaves. Fruit roundish oblate, resembling an apple 

 in appearance, orange with many light yellowish dots and specks; flesh coarse, crisp; 

 poor; winter. 

 Zapfenbirn. i. Christ Handb. 559. 1817. 



Tree large, very productive. Fruit long-acute-pyriform, yellow, finely dotted; flesh 

 breaking, not juicy, musky; used for drying and for cooking; early winter. 



