THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 475 



Moon. i. Ragan Nom. Pear, B. P. I. Bui. 126:18.5. 190S. 



Cultivated by Silas Wharton in 1S24. Its synonyms, Moon's Pound, and Pound, 

 Moon's, are significant of its size. Fruit described by Ragan as medium sized, yellow; 

 flesh melting, juicy; good; late. 

 Moorcroft. 1. Hogg Fruit Man. 619. 1884. 



Often called in England the Malvern pear, being much grown about that place; esteemed 

 for perry. Fruit small, globular, even and regular in outline, greenish-yellow on the shaded 

 side, and with a brownish tinge on the side next the sun, strewed all over with large ashy 

 gray freckles of russet; flesh breaking. 

 Moorfowl Egg. 1. Lindley Guide Orch. Gard. 361. 1831. 



Muirfowl Egg. 2. Hogg Fruit Man. 619. 1884. 



An old Scotch dessert pear partaking somewhat of the character of Swan Egg. Fruit 

 below medium, globular, dull green changing to yellow-green, mottled with red next the. 

 sun, and thickly strewed with pale brown-russety dots; flesh yellowish, semi-buttery, 

 tender, sweet and with a slight perfume; Oct. 

 Morel. 1. Mag. Hort. 21:151. 1855. 2. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:434, fig. 1S69. 



Propagated by Alexandre Bivort, successor of Van Mons, and can be traced earlier 

 than 1843. Fruit below medium or small, ovate, sensibly hexagonal, flattened at either 

 extremity, and one side usually more enlarged than the other, yellowish-green, dotted and 

 marbled with russet; flesh yellowish, fine, breaking, rather granular at the center; juice 

 abundant, wanting in sweetness, insipid and of a very unpleasant astringency; second, 

 but good only for cooking; Apr. 

 Morgan. 1. Horticulturist 14:250, fig. 1859. 2. Mag. Hort. 25:541. 1859. 



Originated on the farm of a Mr. Morgan in New Hanover County, North Carolina. 

 Fruit large, oblate varying to obtuse-pyriform, greenish-yellow, speckled with gray-russet 

 intermingled with some tracery of the same; flesh white, a little gritty, juicy, sweet, slightly 

 vinous; very good, nearly best; Oct. 

 Morley. 1. Parkinson Par. Per. 593. 1629. 



Mentioned in Parkinson's list of orchard pears as a " very good peare, like in forme 

 and colour unto the Windsor but somewhat grayer." 

 Morosovskaja. 1. la. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 61. 1880. 



Mentioned in a paper read by Mr. J. L. Budd before the Horticultural Society of Iowa 

 in 1880. It is a Russian variety, having gritty, thorn-like wood. 

 Moskovka. 1. Ragan Nom. Pear, B. P.I. Bui. 126:184. 1908. 



A Russian variety said to be largely grown for cooking. Fruit small, pyriform, juicy 

 early season. 

 Mostbirne. 1. Dochnahl Fzi/zr. Obstkunde 2:173. 1856. 



Nassau, Ger., 1802. Fruit medium, pyriform, sides rather unequal, whitish-yellow skin 

 changing to lemon-yellow, without any blush, dotted indistinctly, russeted; flesh yellow, 

 breaking, coarse-grained, juicy, aromatic, sweet ; third for dessert, but first for cooking and 

 perry; Sept. and Oct. 

 Moyamensing. 1. Mag. Hort. 13:274. 1847. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 818. 1869. 



Supposed to be a native. The original tree stood in 1847 in the garden of J. B. Smith 



