522 THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 



covered with fawn-colored mottles of russet and small gray dots; flesh whitish, watery, 

 semi-fine, melting: juice very abundant, saccharine, richly flavored, aromatic, with an 

 agreeable acidity; first; Sept. and Oct. 

 Robert Treel. i. Guide Prat. 104. 1876. 



Published by J. de Jonghe, Bel. Tree very fertile. Fruit medium; flesh melting; 

 first; Feb. 

 Robine. I. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:174. PI. XXVII. 1768. 2. Hogg Fruit Man. 



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This is an ancient pear of unascertained origin, though the pomologists Turpin and 

 Poiteau and others have regarded it as French. It is often known as the Royale d'£ti. 

 and has had various other synonyms. Fruit below medium, globular-turbinate, bright 

 green changing to yellow, dotted with greenish-gray; flesh white, fine or semi-fine, almost 

 breaking, rather dry, very saccharine, sweet and having an agreeable musky flavor ; second ; 

 mid-Aug. 

 Robitaillie pere. 1. Rev. Hort. 463. 1906. 



A French pear raised at the beginning of the present century by M. Robitaillie. Fruit 

 very large; skin yellow, dotted with green and fawn, becoming golden at full maturity; 

 flesh fine, saccharine, acidulous, very juicy; first; season late and prolonged until Jan. 

 Rockeneirbirne. 1. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 2:2. 1856. 



South Germany, 1847. Fruit small, smooth and shining; flesh yellow-white, some- 

 what blushed; first, for household use and perry; Sept. 

 Roe Bergamot. 1. Downing Fr. Trees A m. 843. 1869. 



Bergamoite de Roe. 2. Mas Pom. Gen. 1:117, fig. 59. 1872. 



Raised by William Roe, Newburgh, N. Y. Fruit medium in size, form oblate or 

 Bergamot-shaped, rather irregular; skin smooth, yellow, with minute yellow dots on the 

 shaded side, washed with red on the side of the sun; flesh rather coarse, sweet, rich, per- 

 fumed flavor suggestive of Gansel Bergamot but much more sugary; good to very good; 

 Sept. Tree fairly vigorous and prolific. 

 Rogers. 1. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 157. 1867. 



Reported as a new pear in 1867. Fruit said to be similar to the Louise Bonne de 

 Jersey in shape and size but like the Washington in dots, markings and flavor; end of 



Sept. 



Roggenhoferbirne. 1. Loschnig Mostbirnen 170, fig. 1913. 



A perry pear which came first probably from Lower Austria. Fruit small to medium, 

 turbinate to pyriform, the apex being rather acute ; skin firm, grass-green turning to greenish- 

 yellow, blushed on the sunny side, dotted all over with numerous gray-brown dots; flesh 

 whitish, coarse-grained, fairly juicy, subacid; good for cider and drying; end of Aug. 

 Roi-Guillaume. 1. Mas Pom. Gen. 4:91, fig. 238. 1879. 



Gained by Van Mons. Fruit medium, ovate, uneven on all its surface; skin at first 

 pale water-green, sprinkled with brown dots, changing to lemon-yellow, more golden on 

 the side next the sun and often washed with orange-red; flesh-white, coarse, granular, 

 rather gritty at core; juice saccharine and perfumed but rather wanting in amount; third 

 for the table, good for the kitchen; Sept. 



