484 THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 



Nypse. 1. Guide Prat. 101. 1S76. 



A winter pear received by Messrs. Simon-Louis, Metz, Lorraine, from Italy, and on 

 trial in that firm's orchards in 1876. 

 Oakley Park Bergamotte. 1. Mag. Hart. 13:152. 1847. 



Raised from seed by T. A. Knight, Downton Castle, Eng. former President of the 

 London Horticultural Society. Fruit medium, globular-obovate, greenish-yellow, with 

 russet; flesh buttery, melting; good; Oct. 

 Ochsenherz. 1. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 2 : 185. 1856. 



Ceeur-de-Boeuf. 2. Guide Prat. 90, 258. 1876. 



South Germany, 1S01. Fruit large, pyriform, crooked, light green turning to lemon- 

 -.. almost entirely blushed with dull light red, dotted with green; flesh pulpy and 

 tender, not juicy, very sweet and musky; third for table, first for household and market; 

 end of Oct. 

 Ockletree. 1. Hist. Mass. Hort. Soc. 37. 1880. 



This was a seedling brought from Pittsburg, Pa., in 1804 and planted near Vincennes, 

 Ind. In 1837 it produced 140 bushels of pears, the largest crop recorded from it. In 1855 

 it measured ten and one-half feet in circumference at the smallest place below the limbs, 

 seventy-five feet across the top, and sixty-five feet in height. In 1867 it was split down by 

 a tornado, and seven or eight years later the trunk also died. It took its name from Mr. 

 Ockletree its owner. The fruit was of inferior quality. 

 Octave Lachambre. 1. Lcroy Diet. Pom. 2:469, fig. 1869. 



M. Octave Lachambre, Loudon, Vienne. Fr., found this variety in the orchard of the 

 Chateau of Gueriniere about 1S25. M. Lachambre propagated it and offered it to Leroy 

 who placed it on the market in i860. Fruit medium or less, globular-ovate, bossed, flat- 

 tened at the top, and always smaller on one side than on the other, dull yellow, finely 

 dotted and streaked with russet, slightly mottled with fawn on the cheek exposed to the sun 

 and around the calyx and stalk; flesh whitish, fine, melting or semi-melting, rather granular 

 around the core; juice extremely abundant, acidulous and saccharine, more or less aromatic 

 but always full of flavor; first; May. 

 Oesterreichische Muskatellerbirne. 1. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 2:24. 1S56. 



Austria, 1851. Fruit medium, globular, medium ventriculous ; skin thick, greenish- 

 yellow, somewhat blushed with brown and without russet ; flesh firm, somewhat gritty, very 

 melting and juicy; first for dessert, household and market; Sept. 

 (Euf de Woltmann. 1. Mas Le Verger 2:221, fig. 109. 1866-73. 



Of German origin. Fruit small to medium, exactly ovate, bright green, sprinkled with 

 numerous dots, some gray and some dark green; at maturity the basic green changes to 

 pale yellow the dots becoming less visible and on well-exposed fruits the side next the 

 sun is slightly blushed with earthy-red on which are some dots of whitish-gray; flesh very 

 white, semi-fine, semi-breaking, sugary, with a refreshing and agreeable perfume; good; 

 end of July. 

 Ogereau. 1. Mich. Sta. Bui. 177:39. 1899. 



Believed to be European. Fruit obovate-oblong-pyriform, yellow blushed with red, 

 some russet; flesh white, buttery, vinous, medium quality, for market; Oct. and Nov. 



