THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 539 



Sainte Therese. 1. Lcroy Diet. Pom. 2:642, fig. 1869. 



Raised by Andre Lcroy, Angers, Fr. It first fruited in 1863. Fruit medium and 

 often larger, ovate, irregular and rather long, always larger on one side than on the other, 

 water-green, dotted and mottled with russet and stained with patches of fawn ; flesh white, 

 fine, melting; juice very abundant, very saccharine, perfumed and possessing an agreeably 

 acid flavor; latter half of Oct. 

 Salisbury. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 541. 1857. 



A native of western New York. Fruit depressed-pyrif orm ; skin rough, somewhat 

 covered with russet and thickly sprinkled with russet dots; flesh coarse; of only moderate 

 quality; Oct. 



Salviati. 1. Duhamcl Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:137, PI- IX- 1768. 2. Hogg Fruit Man. 643. 

 1SS4. 



Merlet, French pomologist, described this pear in L'Abregd des bon fruits in 1675. 

 Fruit below medium to medium; form variable from obtuse- turbinate to slightly long 

 ovate-turbinate; skin thin, wax-yellow, dotted with greenish spots, sometimes much 

 stained w^th scaly russet and sometimes tinted with reddish-brown on the side touched 

 by the sun; flesh whitish, coarse, semi-melting, gritty at the center; juice scanty, rather 

 saccharine, sweet, but w-ith a strong and disagreeable odor of musk; third; Sept. 

 Salzburger von Adlitz. 1. Dochnahl Fiihr. Obstkunde 2:14. 1856. 



A pear much esteemed in Bavaria, Wurttemberg, and Upper Austria. Fruit nearly 

 medium, short-conic, even in outline, greenish-yellow, handsomely blushed, densely dotted 

 with fine points; skin without scent; flesh mild, tender, melting; first for dessert, especially 

 good for household and market; beginning of Sept. 

 Sam Brown. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 2nd App. 134, fig. 1872. 



Originated with Samuel Brown, Junior, Walnut Hills, Md. Exhibited at Philadelphia 

 in 1869. Fruit full medium size or under, globular, obtuse-pyriform, a little uneven, pale 

 yellow partly covered with thin russet, resembling Brown Beurre' somewhat in appearance 

 and very much in flavor, sometimes rather brownish in the sun; flesh white, a little coarse, 

 melting, juicy, vinous and rich; very good, nearly best; Sept. 

 Samenlose. 1. la. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 382. 1885. 



A Russian pear from the province of Vilna, which seems to be a near relative of the 

 Bessemianka, but differs in expression of tree. Fruit above medium, of Bergamot type 

 and good in quality. 

 Sanguine d'ltalie. 1. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:647, fig- 1869. 



Imported into France about the beginning of the last century. Fruit medium, tur- 

 binate and regular, rather obtuse, grass-green, dotted with gray on the shaded side and with 

 yellow-red on the sun-exposed side; flesh breaking, gritty, coarse, dull yellow, veined 

 with red especially about the core where the yellow almost entirely disappears under the 

 blood-red; juice never abundant, saccharine, sweet, without much perfume; third; Aug. 

 and Sept. 

 Sanguinole. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 851. 1869. 2. Bunyard Handb. Hardy Fr. 



197- 1920- 

 Sanguine de France. 3. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:645, fig- 1869. 



