THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 



Omer-Paclia (syn. of Saint Menin), 537 



One-third, 486 



Oneida, 486 



Onion, 486 



Onondaga, 201 



Ontario, 202 



Orange, 486 



Orange-Bergamot, 486 



Orange de Briel (syn. of Brielsche Pomeranzenbirne), 



319 



Orange County Nurs. Co., introd. of Wilder Sugar, 

 58o 



Orange d'Hiver, 486 



Orange Mandarine, 486 



Orange Musquee, 487 



Orange pear tree, old, 42 



Orange Rouge, 487 



Orange Tulipee, 487 



Orange de Vienne, 487 



Orchards, pear, care of, 97; catch crops for, 102 



Orchards of mixed varieties of pears, 100 



Ordensbirne, 487 



Orel 15, 487 



Oriental pears, descriptions of species of, 74; influ- 

 ence of, on American pear culture, 55 



Orpheline Colmar, 488 



Orpheline d'Enghien (syn. of Beurre 1 d'Arenberg), 

 129 



Osband Summer, 488 



Osborne, 488 



Osborne, John, orig. of Osborne, 488 



Osimaya (syn. of Winter), 583 



Oswego Beurre, 488 



Oswego Incomparable, 488 



Ott, 488 



Ott, Samuel, orig. of Ott, 488 



Owen, 488 



Owen, John, orig. of Owen, 488 



Owener Bime, 489 



Oyster-shell scale on pear, 120 



Ozark, 489 



P. Barry, 203 



Pacific states, introduction of pear-growing in, 



53 



Paddock, 489 



Padres, early growers of pears, 54 

 Pailleau, 489 

 Pain-et-Vin, 489 

 Palmischbirne, 489 

 Papeleu, Adrien, orig. of Beurr<5 Paycn, 303; Navez 



Peintre, 480 



Paquency (syn. of Payenche), 493 

 Paradiesbirne, 489 

 Pardee, 489 

 Pardee, S. D., orig. of Dickerman, 359; Pardee, 



489 



Parfum d'Aout, 490 

 Parfum d'Hiver, 490 

 Parfum de Rose, 490 

 Parfum6, 490 

 Parfumee, 490 



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Parigot, orig. of Appoline, 250; Bern-re 1 Bourbon, 

 288; Comptesse de Chambord, 347; Doyenn6 

 Fradin, 367; Eugene des Nouhes, 379 



Pariset, orig. of varieties, 239, 249, 279, 292, 307, 

 329, 344, 453, 471, 490, 536, 543, 544, 562 



Parkinson, discussion of pears by, 32 



Parkinson's pears known at present, 36 



Parmentier, Andrew, introd. of Surpasse Virgalieu, 

 557; orig. of Bergamotte de Stryker, 277 



Parrot, 490 



Parry, William, orig. of Cincincis Seedling, 338 



Parsonage, 490 



Passa-tutti, 490 



Passans du Portugal, 491 



Passe Colmar, 205; parent of Alexandrine Mas, 241 ; 

 Felix Sahut, 381; Wilmington, 582; Zephirin 

 Gregoire, 587 



Passe-Colmar des Beiges, 491 



Passe Colmar d't, 491 



Passe Colmar Francois (syn. of Jean de Witte), 429 



Passe Colmar Musqu6, 491 



Passe Crassane, 491 ; parent of Prince Napoleon, 512 



Passe-Goemans, 491 



Passe Madeleine, 491 



Passe-Tardive, 492 



Pastor, 492 



Pastorale, 492 



Pastorenbirne (syn. of Vicar of Winkfield), 227 



Pater Noster, 492 



Paternotte, Pierre, orig. of Pierre Paternotte, 499 



Patten, Charles G., orig. of Seckel Seedling No. I, 



543 



Paul Ambre, 492 

 Paul Bonamy, 492 

 Paul Coppieters, 492 

 Paul d'Hoop, 493 

 Paul Thielens, 493 

 Pauls Bime, 493 

 Payen, 493 

 Payenche, 493 



Payne, James, discov. of Seneca, 544 

 Payton, 493 



Payton, orig. of Payton, 493 

 Peach, 494 

 Pear, adaptability of the, to soils and locations, 92; 



black mold of the, 117; brown-blotch of the, 116; 



codling moth on the, 118; crown-gall on the, 116; 



descriptive blank of the, opposite 68; fertility of 



the, 99; history of the, I; leaf- blight of the, 115; 



leaf-spots of the, notes on, 115; oyster-shell scale 



on the, 120; pink-rot of the, 117; San Jose scale 



on Ihe, 117; structural botany of the, 58 

 Pear-blight, control of, 113; early occurrence of, in 

 America, 51; notes on, in 



-borers, 120 



-breeding, Van Mons" theory of, 1 8 



-characteristics of the, unchanged since time of 

 Pliny, 9 



-culture, climate adapted to, 85; economic con- 

 siderations important to, 94; importance of 

 stocks in, 94; notes on, 83; statistics of, 83 



