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habit. Fruit medium, obovate, tapering toward the stem, obtuse, brown-russet on dull 

 yellow ground, ruddy on the sunny side; flesh yellowish-white, coarse, melting, juicy, rich, 

 sugar}', slightly perfumed and with a musky flavor; good but not strictly first rate; as an 

 American fruit it may be ranked with Buffum, Cushing and Fulton ; Oct. 

 Pepin. 1. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:515, fig. 1869. 2. Hogg Fruit Man. 629. 1884. 



This pear was growing in the orchard of Le Lectier in Anjou, Fr., in the year 1600 

 and was described by Claude Saint-fitienne in 1670. Fruit below medium and sometimes 

 small, globular, bossed, always mammillate at the summit, meadow-green, clouded with 

 pale yellow, dotted with gray and extensively washed with brick red on the side turned to 

 the sun; flesh whitish, fine or semi-fine, breaking, watery; at the center are numerous 

 granulations; juice very saccharine, sweet and savory; second; mid-Aug. 

 Perpetual. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 832. 1869. 



Said to have originated on Long Island, N. Y. Disseminated by Messrs. Berckmans, 

 Augusta, Ga. Fruit medium, obovate-obtuse-pyriform, green and yellow, beautifully 

 blushed in the sun; flesh whitish, firm, moderately juicy, sweet; good; keeps till May. 

 Perrier. 1. Guide Prat. in. 1876. 



Obtained by M. Morel in 1873. Fruit medium, globular, green; flesh fine, melting, 

 juicy; good; beginning of Aug. Tree vigorous and fertile. 

 Pertusati. 1. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:516, fig. 1869. 



Raised in the nurseries of M. Andre Leroy, Angers, Fr., in 1867. Fruit medium, 

 globular-ovate, irregular, having one side larger than the other; skin rough, golden-yellow, 

 finely dotted with gray, marbled with clear brown around the calyx and the stem; flesh 

 white, fine, melting; juice abundant, very saccharine, with an acidulous flavor, very pleasant 

 and delicately perfumed; first; Nov. 

 Petersbirne. 1. Dochnahl Fji/;r. Obstkunde 2:33. 1S56. 



Petite Poire de Pierre. 2. Mas Pom. Gen. 4:101, fig. 243. 1879. 



Kleine Petersbirne. 3. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 242. 1889. 



Altenburg, Ger., 1799. Fruit small, clear green, sprinkled with numerous minute 

 blackish-green dots, turning to dull yellow at maturity and washed over a large area of its 

 surface with dark red, on which the dots are of a darker red; flesh greenish- white, very fine, 

 semi-breaking, sufficiently juicy and agreeably perfumed; a good fruit to preserve or to 

 dry; Aug. 



Petit-Blanquet. 1. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:132, PI. VI. 1768. 2. Leroy Diet. Pom. 

 2:517, fig. 1869. 



Little Blanquet. 3. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 802. 1869. 



Small Blanquet. 4. Hogg Fruit Man. 646. 1884. 



This variety was known in French gardens in the middle of the sixteenth century under 

 the name Poire Perle, and some years later also by that of Petit-Blanquet. Fruit small or 

 very small; form rather inconstant, slightly obtuse-pyriform, or more obtuse-ovate; skin 

 smooth and transparent and shining, clear pale yellow or of a white, waxy and pearl-like 

 tone, sprinkled with greenish dots, with occasionally a blush of tender rose on the side next 

 the sun; flesh very white, semi-fine, breaking and firm; juice rarely abundant, saccharine, 

 savory although only slightly perfumed; a second class dessert pear; Aug. 



