368 THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 



Garonne, Fr., and first reported in 1855. Fruit medium, globular or globular-turbinate, 

 flat at base, mammillate at summit, pale yellow, dotted and stained with fawn, blushed 

 with tender rose on the side toward the sun; flesh white, fine, melting, juicy, rather gritty 

 around the core; juice abundant, sweet, very sugary, tasting of musk; second; Oct. 

 Doyenne Hudellet. 1. Mas Le Verger y.Vt. 2, 101, fig. 147. 1866-73. 



Obtained by M. Jules Hudellet at Ceyzeriat near Bourg, Ain, Fr.; it was first published 

 in 1867. Fruit medium, globular-cylindrical, regular outline, bright green sprinkled with 

 dots of gray-brown, passing to pale yellow, with some red on the side of the sun; flesh white, 

 fine, melting, full of sweet juice, slightly musky; first; Nov. 



Doyenne Jamin. 1. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:75, fig. 1869. 2. Mas Pom. Gen. 5:131, fig. 

 354. 1880. 



Gained by Jamin & Durand, nurserymen at Bourg-la-Reine, near Paris, in 1859 from 

 seed. Fruit medium, turbinate-conic or turbinate-ovate, irregular, greenish-yellow chang- 

 ing to yellow and washed with rose on the sunny side, dotted with russet ; flesh whitish, 

 semi-fine, buttery, full of sweet juice, vinous, astringent, without much perfume; second; 

 Jan. and Feb. 

 Doyenne de Lorraine. 1. Mas Pom. Gen. 4:17, 201. 1879. 



Received by Diel, the eminent German pomologist, from a nurseryman at Metz 

 under the name of Doyenne d'Austrasie by which it is mostly known to German authors. 

 Fruit medium, globular, depressed at each pole, water-green, with gray-brown dots, bright 

 citron-yellow when ripe and golden on the side next the sun or sometimes washed with red ; 

 flesh white, semi-fine, semi-buttery; juice plentiful, sweet and slightly perfumed; good; 

 Sept. and Oct. 

 Doyenne Louis. 1. Leroy Did. Pom. 2:79, fig. 1869. 



Seedling of Van Mons, previous to 1820. Fruit small, turbinate-obtuse, regular in 

 form, dark yellow, strewn with numerous gray-brown dots and carmined on the side next 

 the sun; flesh yellowish, coarse, semi-melting, gritty at center; juice abundant, sugary, 

 lacking in flavor; third; Sept. and Oct. 

 Doyenne de Montjean. 1. Cat. Cong. Pom. France 243, fig. 1906. 



Obtained in 1848 by M. Trottier, Montjean, Department of Maine-et-Loire, Fr., 

 and first published in 1858. Fruit large to very large, ovate, nearly equally rounded at 

 its two poles; skin thin and rough, yellow, much russeted; flesh white, very fine, melting, 

 very juicy, with a slightly vinous and sweet flavor, perfumed; very good; Jan. to Mar. 

 Doyenne Nerard. 1. Mas Le Verger 2:237, %• "?■ 1866-73. 2. Guide Prat. 68. 1895. 



Obtained in 1850 by M. Bonnefoy, a nurseryman at Saint-Genis-Laval, near Lyons, 

 Fr. Fruit small, globular-conic, yellowish-white, marbled with bright red; flesh semi- 

 breaking, very sugary; good; Aug. 

 Doyenne Nouveau. 1. Mcintosh Bk. Gard. 2:461. 1855. 



Fruit medium, obovate; flesh tender and juicy; excellent; Apr. 

 Doyenne Perrault. 1. Guide Prat. no. 1876. 



Fruit medium, rather oblate, resembling Easter Bergamot with a long stalk; flesh 

 fine, firm, melting; first; winter. 

 Doyenne Picard. 1. Guide Prat. 93. 1876. 



Fruit medium; flesh melting; first; Aug. 



