356 THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 



Delices de Chaumont. I. Guide Prat. 72. 1876. 2. Alas Pom. Gen. 7:133, fig. 547. 

 1SS1. 

 Fruit rather large, conic-ovate, olive spotted with gray; flesh white, buttery, melting, 

 wanting in juice, very sweet; second, cooking. 

 Delices Everard. 1. Hogg Fruit Man. 558. 1884. 



Raised by Gabriel Everard, Tournay, Fr., in 1840. It was sent to England in 1865 and 

 received a first-class certificate from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1875. Fruit 

 small, globular-turbinate, smooth, shining, bright yellow, much speckled and marked with 

 russet; flesh salmon tint, tender, buttery, melting, very juicy, sweet, delicious flavor and 

 fine perfume; Oct. to Feb. 

 Delices de Froyennes. 1. Hogg Fruit Man. 558. 1884. 



Raised by Isidore Degaud, Froyennes, Tournay, Fr. Fruit medium, oval, yellow 

 covered with fawn-colored russet; flesh tender, melting, very juicy, sugary and perfumed, 

 vinous; Oct. and Nov. 

 Delices d'Hardenpont. 1. Liegel Syst. Anleit. 99. 1825. 2. Hogg Fruit Man. 558. 1884. 



Raised by Abbe Hardenpont, Mons, Bel., in 1759. There has been much confusion 

 between this and Delices d'Hardenpont d' Angers and the Archiduc Charles and Charles 

 of Austria. Fruit large, oblong-obovate-obtuse; skin smooth, bright green changing to 

 yellow, with pale brown-russet dots; flesh white, tender, buttery, melting, rich, sweet, 

 perfumed; good; Nov. 



Delices d'Hivei. 1. Mas Pom. Gen. 6:61, fig. 415. 1880. 2. Gard. Chron. N. S. 26:210. 

 1886. 



Distributed by M. Dauvesse, Orleans, Fr., early in the latter half of the nineteenth 

 century. Fruit large; form variable from elongate-pyriform to globular-pyriform with 

 short stalk set obliquely; skin thick, green, heavily dotted; flesh moderately fine, full of 

 sugary juice, acid and delicately perfumed; Dec. to Jan. 

 Delices de Huy. 1. Guide Prat. 56, 251. 1895. 



Fruit large, conic-pyriform, yellowish-green; flesh greenish-yellow, juicy, pleasantly 

 perfumed; first; Sept. 



Delices de Jodoigne. 1. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:15, fig. 1869. 2. Hogg Fruii Man. 559. 

 1884. 



Obtained by Simon Bouvier, Jodoigne, Bel., in 1826. Fruit medium, pyriform, 

 irregular, slightly obtuse and larger on one side of the axis than the other, grass-green on 

 the shaded side and reddish-gray on the exposed face, covered with numerous very fine 

 dots of fawn; flesh white, firm, breaking, sweet, juicy, refreshing and aromatic; first; Oct. 

 Delices de Ligaudieres. 1. Guide Prat. 60. 1895. 



Fruit medium, of the style of White Doyenne\ but the stem thicker and shorter; flesh 

 fine, melting; first; Oct. 



Delices de Lovenjoul. 1. Ann. Pom. Beige 6:65, fig. 1858. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 

 734. 1869. 



Jides Bivort. 3. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:15, fig. 1869. 



A seedling of Van Mons in whose catalog of 1828 it is No. 521. Fruit medium, 

 obovate-obtuse-pyriform, greenish-yellow washed with orange-red, speckled all over with 



