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Gulabi. 1. Guide Prat. 93. 1895. 



Sent out and recommended as one of the best sorts in the Caucasus by M. Niemetz 

 of Winnitza in the former Government of Polish-Russia. The varieties of the Caucasus 

 are for the most part highly saccharine, rather coarse, and the vegetation very vigorous. 

 Guntershauser Holzbirne. 1. Dochnahl Fiihr. Obsikwide 2:196. 1S56. 



Wiirttemberg, Ger., 1848. Fruit medium, turbinate, uniform whitish-green, russet 

 dots; flesh fine-grained, very juicy, vinous, astringent, sweet; good; Oct. 

 Gustave Bivort. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 776. 1869. 



French. Fruit medium, globular, pale yellow, with stains and nettings of russet, 

 blushed on side next the sun; flesh white, juicy, semi-melting, sweet, slightly perfumed; 

 good or very good; Aug. 



Gustave Bourgogne. 1. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:262, fig. 1869. 2. Downing Fr. Trees 

 Am. 776. 1869. 



Gained by Van Mons at Louvain about 1S40. Fruit large or medium, turbinate- 

 ovate, flattened at both poles, whitish-green, speckled with fine fawn dots, some bronze- 

 green on the side next the sun; flesh white, semi-fine, almost melting; juice very abundant 

 and sugary, delicately perfumed, refreshing, and agreeable; second for both eating and 

 cooking; Sept. 

 Gustin Summer. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 575. 1857. 2. Ibid 776. 1869. 



Originated in New Jersey. Fruit small, globular, yellow, sweet without much flavor; 

 Sept. 

 Gute Griine. 1. Christ Handb. 524. 181 7. 



German. Fruit medium, globular, green changing to yellowish, blushed; flesh tender, 

 melting; beginning of Sept. for several weeks. 

 Habichtsbirne. 1. Dochnahl Fiihr. Obstkunde 2:146. 1856. 



Rhineland. Described by Diel in 1804. Fruit very large, 5 in. x 3 in., hook-nosed 

 or like the beak of a bird, crooked, uniformly light green, densely speckled with light brown 

 dots and marked with russet; flesh coarse-grained, semi-melting, breaking; third for table 

 and good for cooking; Nov. and Dec. 

 Hacon Incomparable. 1. Gard. Chron. 20. 1841. 2. Hogg Fruit Man. 591. 1884. 



About the year 1792 a Mrs. Rayner sowed the seeds of a Rayner's Norfolk Seedling 

 at Norfolk, Eng. Subsequently, about 1814, one of the resultant trees was propagated 

 from grafts by a Mr. Hacon of the same place. The hardy and productive tree renders 

 it particularly valuable for climates similar to that of England. The blossoms bear the 

 sharpest frosts without injury but the tree cannot be made to bear until it is eight to ten 

 years old. Fruit medium, globular-oblate, flattened and depressed at both poles, pale 

 yellowish-green, covered with numerous russety spots and markings; flesh yellowish-white, 

 melting, buttery with a rich, vinous, sweet, musky flavor; Nov. to Jan. 

 Haddington. 1. Mag. Hart. 13:274. 1847. 



In 1828 J. B. Smith, a farmer near Haddington, Philadelphia, raised this pear from 

 seed of a Pound pear. Fruit above medium, obovate-pyriform, greenish-yellow, with a 

 brownish cheek and minute russet dots and patches; flesh yellowish, juicy, aromatic; 

 texture varies, some being quite melting, others inclined to break; good; Jan. to Apr. 



