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obtuse-pyriform, dark green, shaded with dull red in the sun and thickly sprinkled with 

 green and light dots; flesh tender, delicious and finely colored; one of the finest cooking pears 

 in its season; Oct. to Dec. 

 Owener Birne. 1. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 2:10. 1856. 



Wurttemberg, 1S30. Fruit globular-turbinate, greenish-yellow, with rather dark blush, 

 russeted all over; flesh yellowish-white, astringent, juicy, breaking, aromatic, first for 

 household use and the making of perry; end of Sept. 

 Ozark. 1. U. S. D. A. Pom. Rpt. 38. 1895. 



Originated about 1845 from seed taken by a Mr. Rooks from Kentucky to Polk County, 

 Missouri. Fruit large, oblate, greenisl -yellow, with a few russet veinings and patches, 

 dots numerous, minute, russet; stem medium long, in a large, deep basin; calyx large, 

 open; flesh white, with yellow veins, buttery, granular, mild subacid; good; Aug. 

 Paddock. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 530. 1857. 2. Ibid. 826. 1869. 



Sent out by Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington, Vt. Fruit rather below medium, oblong- 

 ovate-pyriform, light yellow, sometimes with a faint blush; flesh fine-grained, melting, 

 sweet, but not very highly flavored; good; end of July. 

 Pailleau. 1. Mag. Hort. 8:58. 1842. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 826. 1869. 



Attributed to Van Mons, Belgium. Fruit large, oblong, greenish-yellow, rough, with 

 brown and green dots and patches of russet; flesh juicy, sweet, rich, good, but rather coarse- 

 grained; excellent quality; early Sept. 

 Pain-et-Vin. 1. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:494, fig. 1869. 



Cultivated in Normandy early in the nineteenth century under the two names of 

 Pain-et-Vin and Chene-Vert or Green-Oak. Fruit medium, ovate, rather long and swelled; 

 skin thin, rough, dark yellow ground covered with bronze, freely stained and dotted with 

 gray and reddened on the side of the sun; flesh yellowish-white, semi-fine, very firm, 

 although semi-melting, rather gritty at core, very juicy, saccharine, acid, very vinous, 

 with a particularly pleasant flavor; second; about mid-Sept, to beginning of Oct. 

 Palmischbirne. 1. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 2:171. 1856. 2. Loschnig Mosibirnen 

 190, fig. 1913. 

 A perry pear grown in Germany and Upper Austria and known in different localities 

 by various names. It was published in Germany in 1823. Fruit small, turbinate, regular 

 in contour, greenish-yellow turning to light yellow, often with a dark blush, covered all over 

 with large gray spots; flesh whitish, coarse-grained, very juicy, acidulous and saccharine, 

 aromatic; third for the table, but first for perry; Sept. 



Paradiesbirne. 1. Christ Handb. 525. 1817. 2. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 2: 182. 1856. 

 Thuringia, Ger., 1797. Fruit small to medium, conic, yellow-green changing to golden 

 yellow, slightly blushed, and dotted with brown, thin skin; flesh yellowish-white, very sweet, 

 juicy; second for dessert, first for household; end of Oct. 

 Pardee. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 530. 1857. 



Raised by S. D. Pardee, New Haven, Conn. Fruit small, globular, greenish-yellow, 

 much covered with russet; flesh coarse, granular, buttery, juicy, melting, with a high vinous 

 flavor, strongly perfumed; Oct. 



