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Rousselet Enfant Prodigue. 3. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 846. 1869. 



Verschwenderin. 4. Mathieu Norn. Pom. 293. 1889. 



A Van Mons seedling of about 1830. Fruit medium to large, ovate but variable, 

 greenish-yellow, largely obscured with cinnamon-colored russet, more or less carmined 

 on the side of the sun; flesh greenish-white, dense, melting, juicy, sugary, aromatic, 

 acidulous, astringent; second; Sept. 

 Epine d'fite. 1. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:138, fig. 1869. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 758. 1869. 



An old pear grown in the gardens of the Monaster}- of Chartreux, Paris, and stated 

 in the catalog of that institution, of 1736, to be identical with the pear Bugiarda of Italy. 

 This Leroy has shown to be an error, the Bugiarda being the pear known in France as 

 Trompeur. Le Lectier appears to have grown it in 1628 in his famous gardens at Orleans, 

 though under the name of Poire d'Espine. Fruit above medium, pyriform, more or less 

 obtuse, bright green, finely dotted with gray-russet and lightly colored with tender rose 

 on the side of the sun; flesh yellowish, fine, melting, juicy, sugary and musky; a moderately 

 good autumn pear; Sept. 

 JEpine d'Ete Rouge. 1. Guide Prat. 94, 270. 1876. 



Rother Sommerdorn. 2. Liegel Syst. Anleit. 108. 1825. 



French, 1805. Fruit medium, ovate, slightly bossed, light grass-green turning to 

 yellow-green, dark blush, dotted; flesh finely-grained; juice somewhat deficient, aromatic; 

 good for the table, kitchen and market; Sept. 



Epine d'Hiver. 1. Langley Pomona 132. 1729. 2. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:184, 

 PI. XLIV, fig. 3. 1768. 



Winter Thorn. 3. Bradley Gard. 199. 1739. 4. ~Lmd\ey Guide Orch. Gard. 410. 1831. 



A very old French pear, reported as early as 167 5. Tree healthy, although not a strong 

 grower, and bears well. Fruit medium to above, roundish-obovate, smooth, green becoming 

 yellowish and irregularly covered with grayish-brown dots; stem rather long, fleshy at 

 base, inserted without depression; calyx small, open, set in a rather shallow basin; flesh 

 whitish, melting, tender, buttery, with a sweet and agreeable musky flavor; a dessert pear; 

 Nov. to Jan. 

 Epine de Jernages. 1. Guide Prat. 94. 1876. 



Fruit medium; first; Mar. 

 Epine du Mas. 1. Potn. France 1: No. 31, PI. 31. 1863. 2. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:412, fig. 

 1869. 



Belle Epine Dumas. 3. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 668. 1869. 



Dumas. 4. Rural N. Y. 45:480, figs. 292, 293. 1886. 



A wilding found about 1760 by a M. Chemison in the forest of Rochechouart near 

 Mas, Department of Haute-Vienne, Fr. Fruit medium, obtuse-pyriform, lively yellow or 

 lemon- yellow, finely dotted with brown and washed with carmine on the sun-exposed cheek; 

 flesh white, fine, tender, melting, sweet, gritty at center, juicy, acid, musky; good; Nov. 

 and Dec. 

 lipine Royale. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 7 5S. 1869. 



Of French origin. Fruit medium, pyriform, yellowish, blushed with bright red on the 

 side next the sun; flesh fine, melting, juicy, sweet, vinous; Oct. 



