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dots, more or less tinged with red on the side of the sun ; flesh white and semi-fine, semi- 

 breaking or melting, rich, sugary, musky; juice abundant; second; Aug. 

 Daimyo. i. W. N. Y. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 129. 1888. 2. Guide Prat. 105. 1895. 



A Japanese variety. Fruit medium, roundish-pyriform, clear yellow with minute 

 pale or brownish dots; stem long, curved, slender, set in a slight depression; calyx open, 

 in a shallow basin; flesh white, coarse, crisp; poor; Oct. and Nov. 

 Dallas. 1. Mag. Hort. 11:252. 1845. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 730. 1869. 



In 1843 this, one of Governor Edwards' seedlings raised at New Haven, Conn., was 

 exhibited to the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. Fruit medium, obovate-obtuse- 

 pyriform, dull yellow, thickly interlaced with cinnamon-russet sprinkled with crimson 

 and russet dots; flesh yellowish-white, fine, melting, buttery, juicy, aromatic; good; Oct. 

 to Dec. 

 Dame. 1. Leroy Diet. Potn. 2:1, fig. 1869. 2. Mathieu Norn. Pom. 200. 1869. 



For two and a half centuries this variety has been known in the Department of Maine- 

 et-Loire under the name of Dame, though in one district it bore the name of des Buhards. 

 Fruit medium, globular-ovate, mammillate around calyx; skin rough, grass-green, dotted 

 with fawn at each end and sprinkled with gray specks; flesh whitish, semi-fine, tender, 

 semi-melting, gritty; juice sufficient, sweet, acidulous, rather well flavored; third; Sept. 

 Dame-verte. 1. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:3, fig. 1869. 2. Mas Pom. Gen. 1:139, %• 7°- 

 1872. 



Attributed to Van Mons about the beginning of the nineteenth century. Fruit above 

 medium, obtuse-conic, skin thick, yellowish-olive, sprinkled with green dots changing to 

 bright yellow and on the side of the sun occasionally touched with crimson; flesh yellowish- 

 white, rather coarse, semi-melting, rather gritty at the center, with plenty of sweet juice, 

 acid but rather savory; second; Aug. 

 Darimont. 1. Lindley Guide Orch. Gard. 369. 1831. 2. Prince Potn. Ma n. 2:200. 1832. 



A Flemish pear new in the early part of the nineteenth century. Fruit medium, 

 oblong, tapering somewhat toward the stalk, yellowish-gray-russet, sprinkled with 

 numerous scabrous specks; flesh white, gritty, melting, with a saccharine, slightly musky 

 and somewhat astringent juice; Sept. and Oct. 

 Darlington. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 731. 1869. 



An American variety; origin unknown. Fruit large, oblate-obtuse-pyriform, pale 

 yellow, some crimson at times on the side of the sun, nettings and patches of russet and 

 russet dots; flesh whitish, coarse, sweet; moderate quality; rots at core; Sept. 

 Dathis. 1. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:4, fig. 1869. 



Origin not clear, but it was cultivated in France before the middle of the last century. 

 Fruit large, turbinate and very swelled, one side being often more so than the other, bright 

 yellow passing to grayish-yellow on the cheek touched by the sun, dotted with green; 

 flesh whitish, semi-fine, half -breaking, gritty at center; juice deficient, sugary; second; Oct. 

 David. 1. Guide Prat. 91. 1876. 



Fruit rather coarse, of handsome pyramidal form, yellowish-green washed with purple; 

 flesh breaking; first quality for cooking purposes; Apr. and May. 

 David d'Angers. 1. Guide Prat. 91. 1876. 2. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:6, fig. 1869. 

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