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Meruault. 1. Mas Pom. Gen. 7:184, fig. 576. 1881. 



Obtained by M. Pariset from a seed bed of the Easter Beurrd made in 1856. Fruit 

 medium, ovate, shortened and thick, water-green sown with dots of fawn-brown, more 

 often almost wholly covered with russet of fawn color; on ripening the basic green changes 

 to an intense lemon-yellow, the russet clears, and the side next the sun becomes golden; 

 flesh whitish, fine, buttery, melting, without grit; juice abundant, rich in sugar, delicately 

 perfumed with musk; first; throughout winter. 

 Merveille de Moringen. 1. Guide Prat. 100. 1876. 



Originated in the em-irons of Moringen, Ger., where it is very well thought of. Tree 

 large, very fertile, resisted the phenomenal frost of 1S79-1880 in Europe. Fruit small, 

 turbinate, a beautiful lemon- yellow ; flesh breaking; for cooking; Oct. 

 Messire Jean. 1. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:173, PI- XXVI. 1768. 2. Hogg Fruit 

 Man. 616. 18S4. 



Of ancient and untraceable origin, but mentioned by Venette, Rochelle, Fr., in 1678 

 and 1683. Fruit medium, turbinate, sometimes slightly obovate, surface slightly bossed; 

 skin rough, thick, dark green, passing to buff, washed with dark red on the side of the sun, 

 strewed with speckles of darker russet; flesh white, slightly tinged with lemon, rather fine, 

 breaking, juicy, richly saccharine, perfumed, sprightly; good, either for dessert or kitchen 

 use; Nov. and Dec. 

 Messire Jean Goubault. 1. Leroy Did. Pom. 2:422, fig. 1869. 



This variety dates from 1847 and came from a seed bed of M. Goubault, Angers, 

 Fr. Fruit large or medium, turbinate, more or less globular, often irregular, bossed and 

 much larger on one side than on the other; skin fine and wrinkled and entirely reddened 

 and dotted with large grayish spots; flesh whitish, coarse, semi-melting, always doughy 

 and containing some grit around the core; juice rather scanty, sugar}-, tart, slightly per- 

 fumed and very agreeable; second; Nov. 



Michaelmas Nelis. 1. Gard. Chron. N. S. 30:272, fig. 82. 1901. 2. Bunyard Handb. 

 Hardy Fr. 188. 1920. 



A seedling from Winter Xelis, which Messrs. Bunyard, nurserymen, Maidstone, Eng., 

 found by chance in a cottage garden, and sent out in 190 1. It was given an award of merit 

 at a meeting of the Fruit Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society in October, 1902. 

 Fruit medium, pyriform, very shapely, light greenish skin, somewhat russety; flesh white, 

 melting, very little grit, juicy and of delicious flavor; end of Sept. 

 Michaux. 1. Mag. Hort. 6:45. 1S40. 2. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 239. 1S54. 



Origin not clear but R. Manning, Salem, Mass., stated that he had received it from a 

 town in Alsace, Fr. Fruit medium, nearly globular-pyriform, light yellowish-green chang- 

 ing to yellow, with a slight blush of red; flesh white, coarse, semi-buttery, juicy, sweet; 

 second; Sept. and Oct. 

 Mignonne d'Ete. 1. Guide Prat. 111. 1876. 



Obtained by M. Boisbunel, Rouen, Fr., and placed in commerce in 1874. Fruit medium 

 to large, like Calebasse in form; skin glossy and yellow, finely dotted and streaked with 

 gray-russet ; flesh fine and melting ; Aug. 



