472 THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 



Mignonne d'Hiver. i. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 816. 1869. 



An old Belgian variety. Fruit medium, obovate to oblong-ovate-pyriform, light 



yellow, mostly covered with thick, rough russet, and veined with crimson and fawn; flesh 



yellowish, rather granular, juicy, melting, sweet, vinous, aromatic; good; Nov. and Dec. 



Mikado. 1. Guide Prat. 115. 1876. 2. Cornell Sta. Bui. 332:449, 484. 1913. 



Among the most successful importers of oriental plants was Freiherr V. Siebold who 



maintained a nursery and botanic garden in Leyden, Holland, during the first half of the 



nineteenth century. Of the pears imported by him, Mikado was one. This was procured 



from Von Siebold's nursery in 1873 by Messrs. Simon-Louis, Metz, Lorraine. Fruit rather 



large, globular-ovoid; skin rough to the touch, yellowish-olive, dotted with gray specks; 



flesh white, fine, breaking, rather juicy, perfumed, with a pronounced quince flavor, 



subacid; poor, uneatable raw; end of Sept. 



Milan d'Hiver. 1. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:424. fig. 1869. 



A very old pear described in 1675 by Merlet, the French pomologist. Fruit large, 



globular-turbinate, usually mammillate at the summit and very regular; skin thick and 



rough to the touch, gray-russet, sprinkled around the stalk with large whitish-gray dots; 



flesh yellowish, fine, semi-melting, granular at the core; juice rarely plentiful, only slightly 



saccharine, acidulous, feebly aromatic; third; Nov. to Jan. 



Milan de Rouen. 1. Leroy D ict. Pom. 2:425, fig. 1869. 2. Hogg Fruit Man. 617. 1884. 

 Gained by M. Boisbunel, Rouen, Fr. ; distributed in 1859. Fruit medium, globular, 

 a little conic toward the summit, slightly bossed and one side less swelled than the other; 

 skin thick, dull yellow, dotted and streaked with fawn, much stained with gray around the 

 stem; flesh yellowish, semi-fine, and semi-melting, juicy, rather granular at the core, sugary; 

 juice aromatic, often spoiled by an unpleasant acerbity; second; end of Aug. 

 Miller. 1. Leroy Diet. Pojh. 2:426, fig. 1869. 



Raised from seed by Andre Leroy; first reported in 1864. Fruit medium and some- 

 times larger; in form it passes from rounded conic to globular, slightly flattened especially 

 at the base; skin rough to touch, bronzed all over, dotted with russet, and dotted and 

 mottled with greenish-yellow; flesh white, fine, melting, a little granular at the core, juicy, 

 sugary, sourish, with a delicious aroma; first; Oct. 

 Millot de Nancy. 1. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:427, fig. 1867. 



Produced in the nurseries of Van Mons at Louvain; first reported in* 1843. Fruit 

 medium, ovate, very obtuse, more or less regular and bossed, often rather globular, yellow- 

 ochre dotted with gray-russet, mottled with olive-brown, sometimes washed with clear 

 fawn on the cheek exposed to the sun; flesh whitish, semi-fine, melting or semi-melting, 

 gritty at the center; juice rarely abundant, but very saccharine, aromatic and full of flavor, 

 sometimes a little too acid; second; Oct. 

 Milner. 1. Ragan Nom. Pear, B. P. I. Bui. 126:181. 1908. 



Cataloged by Silas Wharton in 1824 under the name of Milner's Favorite. Fruit 

 small, pyriform; good. 

 Mima Wilder. 1. Mass. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 152. 1874. 2. Ibid. 120. 1875. 



A seedling of Colonel Wilder, in a collection of new pears shown by him in 1874. In 

 November of the following year it was found to have retained its previous good quality. 



