THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 405 



Gros Rousselet d'Aout. 1. Ann. Pom. Beige 8:53, fig. 1S60. 2. Downing Fr. Trees 

 Am. 776. 1S69. 



Rousselet d'Aout. 3. Pom. France 2: No. 83, PI. S3. 1863. 



This was one of the first seedlings raised by Van Mons and is 201 in his catalog of 

 1S23. Fruit medium, pyriform, yellow washed with rose-red; flesh fine, melting, juicy, 

 sugan', acidulous, with an agreeable perfume; a very good early fruit, ripening in August 

 in Belgium. 

 Gros Trouve. 1. Guide Prat. 95. 1876. 



This seedling was found by Gabriel Everard in a garden at Tournai, Bel. Fruit very 

 large, fusiform, washed with red on the side next the sun; flesh breaking; first for kitchen 

 purposes; keeps until the autumn of the year following. 

 Grosse Eisbirne. 1. Dochnahl Filhr. Obstkunde 2:188. 1856. 



Reported in 1S02. Fruit medium, onion-shaped; skin very smooth, shining and greasy, 

 yellowish-green changing to light citron-yellow, often somewhat blushed; flesh coarse, 

 solid and dry; third for the table, first for culinary use; Oct. 

 Grosse Figue. 1. Guide Prat. 95, 278. 1876. 



Fruit large, obtuse-pyriform, yellow stained with brown; flesh semi-melting, juicy, 

 well perfumed; first; Nov. 

 Grosse gelbe Weinbirne. 1. Dochnahl Fiihr. Obstkunde 2:49. 1836. 



Nassau, 1805. Fruit below medium, globular, obtuse-conic, often turbinate, light 

 lemon-yellow, dotted with fine brown spots, somewhat russeted; flesh extremely juicy, 

 vinous, mingled sweet and sour; third for dessert, very good for the kitchen. 

 Grosse-Herbst-Bergamotte. 1. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 2:169. 1856. 



Reported in middle Germany, 1S06. Fruit medium, long-pyriform, round, yellowish- 

 green, russeted, speckled with gray dots; flesh breaking, firm, white, juicy, sweet; third 

 for dessert, good for household use; Oct. 

 Grosse Landlbime. 1. Loschnig Mostbiren 66, fig. 1913. 



A perry pear grown throughout Austria. Fruit medium, turbinate, otherwise short- 

 pyriform; skin smooth, shining, yellow when ripe, blushed on the side opposed to the sun, 

 sprinkled with numerous dots of cinnamon-brown; flesh coarse-grained, yellow-white, very 

 juicy, sweet, astringent and without aroma; excellent; Oct. to Dec. 

 Grosse Leutsbirne. 1. Loschnig Mostbirnen 112, fig. 1913. 



An Austrian perry pear. Fruit medium, long-pyriform, green covered all over with 

 gray-russet; flesh very juicy, astringent, saccharine, with a sourish after-taste; good for 

 transportation; Oct. 

 Grosse-Louise. 1. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:253, fig- 1869. 



A chance seedling found in a garden of the town of Tourcoing, Fr. Fruit large, conic- 

 turbinate-obtuse, bossed and generally mammillate at summit, yellow, slightly greenish, 

 dotted all over with russet and having some small brown stains; flesh white, very fine, dense, 

 free from grit; juice very abundant, sugary, sweet, delicately perfumed; first; Sept. 

 Grosse Mostputzer. 1. Loschnig Mostbirnen 114, fig. 1913. 



A perry pear grown throughout Austria. Fruit medium but variable in size, globular, 

 turbinate, otherwise pyriform; skin firm, leaf-green turning bright yellow at maturitv, 



