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green becoming partially yellow at maturity, marked and dotted with gray-russet; flesh 

 white, melting, buttery, juicy, sugary and highly aromatic; Nov. 

 Jean-Baptiste Dediest. 1. Mas Pom. Gen. 6:23, fig. 396. 1880. 



Obtained by M. Xavier Gre"goire, Jodoigne, Brabant; first reported in 1839. Fruit 

 medium, globular; flesh fine, juicy, sugary; good; spring until July. 

 Jean Cottineau. 1. Guide Prat. 97. 1876. 2. Ibid. 68. 1895. 



On trial in the orchards of Messrs. Simon-Louis, Metz, Lorraine, in 1876 and rated by 

 them in 1S95 as a third-class summer pear. Fruit medium, globular, yellowish-green- 

 spotted with red on the sun-exposed side; flesh white, sugary; good; mid- Aug. 

 Jean Laurent. 1. Guide Prat. 97. 1:876. 2. Ibid. 94. 1895. 



On trial with Messrs. Simon-Louis at Metz in 1895. Tree of remarkable fertility; 

 suitable for large orchards. Fruit small or medium; flesh breaking; first for culinary pur- 

 poses; Dec. to June. 

 Jean Sano. 1. Guide Prat. 94. 1S95. 



Sent out by M. Daras de Naghin, Antwerp, Bel., and on trial in the orchards of Messrs. 

 Simon-Louis, Metz, Lorraine, in 1895. Fruit medium or rather large; flesh semi-fine, 

 very sugary and aromatic; Nov. and Dec. 

 Jean de Witte. 1. Mag. Hort. 7:286. 1841. 2. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:307, fig. 1869. 



Passe Colmar Francois. 3. Ann. Pom. Beige 8: 7, fig. i860. 



Raised at Brussels early in the nineteenth century by M. Witzthumb, director of the 

 Botanical Garden. Fruit below but sometimes up to medium, globular or turbinate, 

 irregular, surface bossed and undulated, greenish, dotted and marbled with a more or less 

 gray-russet; flesh white, semi-fine, melting, extremely juicy, sugary, perfumed, with a 

 buttery flavor, quite delicious; first; Dec. 

 Jeanne. 1. Guide Prat. 94. 1895. 



On trial with Messrs. Simon-Louis, Metz, Lorraine, in 1895, having been received by 

 them from M. Daras de Naghin, Antwerp, Bel. Fruit large or very large, ob 1 ong-obovate; 

 flesh semi-melting, nearly breaking, juicy, sugary and aromatic; Nov. 

 Jeanne d'Arc. 1. Rev. Hort. 518, fig. 1904. 



Obtained by A. Sannier, Rouen, Fr., from a seedling of Beurre Diel fertilized with the 

 Doyenne du Cornice. Placed in commerce in 1893, and recommended by the Pomological 

 Society of France ten years later. Fruit large, obtuse, rather of the aspect of the Duchesse 

 d'Angouleme; skin slightly rough, pale lemon-yellow, tinted with rose on the side exposed 

 to the sun, speckled with rose, some marks of fawn color; flesh white, granular about the 

 core, fine, melting, very juicy, saccharine, acidulous, agreeable, only slightly perfumed; 

 good; Oct. and Nov. 

 Jefferson. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 791. 1869. 2. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 119. 1873. 



In a Report from Georgia to the American Pomological Society in 1873, P. Barry 

 wrote of a Jefferson pear as a native of Alabama and an early summer fruit. Downing 

 gives the following description of a pear of the same name originating in Mississippi. Fruit 

 large, roundish-obtuse-pyriform, straw-color, shaded with red in the sun, and dotted with 

 small green dots; flesh white, not juicy, sweet, coarse, decays quickly at core, not highly 

 flavored; Aug. 



