500 THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 



By error it acquired also the names of Boston and Virgalieu. Fruit medium or below, 

 globular-oblate, slightly pyriform, pale yellow, netted, patched, and dotted with russet, 

 slightly blushed on the sunny side; flesh yellowish-white, fine, melting, juicy, rich, sugary, 

 brisk, with a refreshing and delicious aroma; good; Aug. 

 Piton. I. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:533, fig- l86 9- 



A seedling found by M. Piton who lived at Cholet, Maine-ct-Loire, Fr. The Horti- 

 cultural Society of Angers described it in its Pomology, and it was named after its propa- 

 gator. Fruit large to very large, long-turbinate-obtuse, depressed at each pole, clear 

 dull green, sown with large russet dots; flesh white, semi-breaking and semi-fine, watery, 

 containing some grit below the core; juice rather vinous, sugary, and more or less perfumed; 

 second for dessert, first for compotes. 

 Pitson. 1. Card. Man. 27:14. 1885. 



A handsome pear from Stone and Wellington, Fonthill, Ont. Fruit medium, regularly 

 pyriform, brown inclining to russet; good; Jan. 

 Pius X. 1. Gard. Chron. 3rd Ser. 37:309. 1905. 



Described in 1905 as a new pear raised by the Alexiens Brothers at Tirlemont, Bel. 

 Fruit large, somewhat cylindric, greenish-olive, with a few brown spots; flesh creamy- 

 white, perfumed; reported to be of first rate quality; Oct. 

 Plantagenet. 1. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:534, fig. 1869. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 834. 1869. 



The Plantagenet was raised from seed by the old Horticultural Society of Maine-et- 

 Loire. The parent tree gave its first fruit in 1858 in the Society's garden at Angers. Fruit 

 above medium, irregular-ovate, bossed, swelled at the central circumference, of a uniform 

 bright green, some russet around the calyx and sprinkled with numerous dark brown dots; 

 flesh whitish, fine or semi-fine, extremely melting; juice very abundant, extremely saccha- 

 rine, acidulous, possessing a delicious perfume which gives an after-taste of musk; first; 

 end of Sept. and early Oct. 

 Plascart. 1. Guide Prat. 102. 1876. 2. Mas Pom. Gen. 3:37, fig. 115. 1878. 



Sent out by the Society Van Mons, Bel., without any account of its origin. Fruit 

 below medium, turbinate-ovate, even in outline; skin firm, pale water-green, covered with 

 numerous large, brown dots, very prominent, the green changing at maturity to a beautiful 

 golden yellow, washed on the side next the sun with a lively vermilion on which the dots 

 are golden yellow; flesh yellowish, semi-fine, rather firm and breaking; juice rich in sugar 

 and perfumed; good; Oct. 

 Piatt. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 535. 1857. 2. Ibid. 834. 1869. 



Originated on the farm of Thomas Tredwell, Beekmantown, Clinton County, N. Y. 

 Fruit medium, globular-oblate, pale yellow, netted and patched with russet and sprinkled 

 with russet dots; flesh whitish, juicy, buttery, semi-melting, agreeable; good; Oct. 

 Platte Honigbirne. 1. Dochnahl Fti/ir. Obstkunde 2:189. 1856. 



Nassau, 1S01. Fruit medium, obtuse-turbinate, light yellow-green, with a pale blush, 

 numerous gray dots, marked with russet ; flesh coarse-grained, aromatic ; third for dessert, 

 first for household; Sept. 

 Pocahontas. 1. Mag. Hort. 13:525. 1847. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 834. 1869. 



Originated at Quincy, Mass., and was exhibited before the Horticultural Society of 



