THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 477 



longue queue. Fruit small, globular-turbinate or turbinate slightly ovate, olive-yellow 

 finely dotted with fawn and washed with red-brown on the cheek next the sun ; flesh yellow- 

 ish, coarse, semi-breaking, juicy, saccharine, acidulous, musky; second; end of July. 

 Muscat Robert, i. Duhamel Trait. Arb.Fr. 2:120, PL II. 1768. 2. Downing Fr. Trees 

 Am. 818. 1869. 



This pear was mentioned by Le Lectier in 1628 and by la Quintinye in 1690 under 

 the name of Pucelle de Saintonge. Its name of Muscat Robert dates from about 1672 and 

 Merlet wrote of it in 1675 as the Amber Pear or Muscat Robert. It has also been widely 

 known as the Amber Pear. Fruit small, globular, very round in all its lower part but 

 slightly conic at its other extremity where it is a little wrinkled, yellowish-green, finely 

 and uniformly dotted with olive-brown and sometimes rather carmined on the cheek 

 exposed to the sun; flesh whitish, semi-fine, breaking or semi-breaking, inclined to rot 

 before ripe, granular, very juicy, sugary, very musky; second; mid-July. 

 Muscat Royal. 1. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:120. 1768. 2. Leroy Dici. Pom. 2:444, 

 fig. 1869. 



An old French pear growing in kitchen garden at Versailles planted about 1670 by La 

 Quintinye for Louis XIV. It was then called Muscat fleuri d'Autumne or Muscat a longue 

 queue, on account of its long stem. Fruit small, globular in its lower half but somewhat 

 conic-obtuse in its upper half; skin fine, grayish-yellow, dotted with clear brown and partly 

 covered with russet which often passes into brownish-red of a somber hue on the side next 

 the sun; flesh white, semi-fine, melting or semi-melting, watery, rather granular round the 

 seeds; juice abundant, very saccharine, more or less acid and having a pleasant flavor; 

 second; Sept. 

 Muscat Royal de Mayer. 1. Mas Le Verger 2:225, fig- JI1 - 1866-73. 



This is the Muscat Royal described by the German Mayer in his Pomona Franconia, 

 1779, and by Diel in 1804, and must not be confused with the Muscat Royal of Duhamel. 

 Fruit small or nearly medium on a pruned tree, globular-turbinate, largest circumference 

 around the middle, very obtuse; skin thick, green, covered with a sort of white bloom which 

 dulls it, sprinkled with numerous round, whitish-gray dots, especially apparent on the side 

 next the sun where they are nearly white; at maturity the green brightens somewhat; by 

 the time it becomes yellow the fruit is already over ripe; flesh greenish, coarse, gritty at the 

 core, semi-buttery, fairly full of sugary juice, with an agreeable musky flavor; third, should 

 be eaten promptly on ripening; end of July. 

 Muscat Roye. 1. Prince Pom. Man. 1:134. 1831. 



Fruit small, oblong; skin rough to the touch, yellowish-green on the shaded side, and 

 of a " pleasant red " next the sun; flesh breaking and perfumed; end of Aug. 

 Muscatelle. 1. Leroy Did. Pom. 2:448, fig. 1S69. 



One of the last gains of Major Esperen, Mechlin, Bel., who died in 1847. Fruit small, 

 nearly globular or globular-conic, at first water-green dotted with numerous round points 

 brown in color, changing to lemon-yellow; flesh yellowish, transparent, semi- or nearly 

 melting, full of sugary juice strongly scented with musk; first; Feb. and Mar. 

 Musette d'Anjou. 1. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:446, fig. 1869. 



Claude Saint-fitierme wrote of this pear briefly in 1687, being the first writer to mention 



