626 



THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 



Pear-diseases, no 

 -districts in America, minor, 51 

 -growing, a comparison of English and American, 



37 



-insects, 117 

 -mites, 119 

 -orchards, care of, 97; catch crops for, 102; sod 



versus clean culture for, 102; tillage of, 102 

 -psylla, 118 



-scab, 114; treatment of, 114 

 -slug, 119 



-stocks, notes on, 95 

 -thrips, 121 



-trees, characters of, 59; description of leaf -buds 

 and leaves of, 61; description of trunk and 

 branches of, 60; flower-buds and flowers of, 62; 

 age of, 40; setting of, notes on, 101 

 -varieties, adaptability of, for dwarfing, 95; 

 blight resistant, 112; blooming season of, 88; 

 ripening season of, 88 



Pears, canning of, 109; cold storage of, 109; com- 

 mercial, leading varieties of, 84; cost of growing, 

 no; descriptions of species of, 69; discussion of 

 the setting of fruit of, 99; fertilizers for, 98; grad- 

 ing of, 1 08; grafting of, 106; hardy, notes on, 86; 

 harvesting and marketing of, 106; home ripening 

 of, 109; local market for, 101 ; methods of planting 

 of, 99; mixed varieties of, in orchards, 100; occi- 

 dental, description of species of, 69; oriental, 

 description of species of, 74; pruning of, 103; self- 

 fertile varieties of, 100; self-sterile varieties of, 

 100; soils and locations for, 91; wild, I; wild, 

 species of, 2 



Peche (syn. of Peach), 494 



Peck, Thomas R., orig. of Royal, 532 



Pei-li, 494 



Pemberton, 494 



Penderson, 494 



Penderson, Samuel, orig. of Penderson, 494 



Pendleton Early York, 494 



Pengethley, 494 



Perm, 494 



Pennsylvania, 494 



Pepin, 495 



Perpetual, 495 



Perrier, 495 



Perry, William, introd. of Lincoln Coreless, 192 



Pertusati, 495 



Pests, damage to American pears by, 38 



Petersbirne, 495 



Petit-Blanquet, 495 



Petit Catillac, 496 



Petit-Chaumontel, 496 



Petit-Hativeau, 496 



Petit-Muscat, 496 



Petit-Oin, 496 



Petite Bergamotte Jaune d'te (syn. of Kleine gelbe 

 Sommermuskatellerbirne), 435 



Petite Charlotte, 497 



Petite Comtesse Palatine (syn. of Kleine Pfalzgrafin) 

 436 



Petite Fondante, 497 



Petite Marguerite, 497 



Petite Muscat Long d'te (syn. of Kleine Lange 

 Sommer-Muskatellerbirne), 436 



Petite Poire de Pierre (syn. of Petersbime), 495 



Petite Tournaisienne, 497 



Petite Victorine, 497 



Petre, 497; first variety to originate in America, 51 



Pfaffenbirne, 497 



Pfingstbirne, 498 



Philiberte, 498 



Philipp der Cute (syn. of Philippe-Le-Bon), 498 



Philippe-Le-Bon, 498 



Philippe Couvreur, 498 



Philippe Goes, 498 



Philippot, 498 



Philippot, orig. of Philippot, 498 



Philopena, 498 



Picciola, 498 



Pickering, or Warden pear tree, 44 



Pickering (syn. of Pound), 208 



Pie IX, 498 



Pied-de- Vache (syn. of Kuhfuss), 439 



Pierre Corneille, 499 



Pierre Curie, 499 



Pierre Mac, 499 



Pierre Paternotte, 499 



Pierre PcSpin, 499 



Pierre Tourasse, 499 



Pimpe, 499 



Pink-rot of pear, 117 



Pinneo, 499 



Pitmaston, 207 



Pitmaston, William, orig. of Bergamot Seckel, 268 



Pitmaston Duchess (syn. of Pitmaston), 207 



Pitmaston Duchesse d'Angouleme (syn. of Pit- 

 maston), 207 



Piton, 500 



Piton, discov. of Piton, 500 



Pitson, 500 



Pius IX (syn. of Pie IX), 498 



Pius X, 500 



Plantagenet, 500 



Planting methods for pears, 99 



Plascart, 500 



Platt, 500 



Platte Honigbirne, 500 



Pliny, medicinal qualities ascribed to pears by, 10; 

 mention of pear varieties by, 8; pear character- 

 istics given by, 9 



Plutarch, discussion of the pear in Greece by, 4 



Pocahontas, 500 



Pockelbirne, 501 



Poete BeVanger, 501 



Poire d'Abbeville, 501 



Poire d'Amour d'Hiver (syn. of Winterliebesbirne), 



584 



Poire d'Ange de Meiningen, 501 

 Poire d'Aunee d'Ete (syn. of Sommeralantbirne), 



548 

 Poire d'Avril, 501 



