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and reported as about twelve years old in 1896. Similar to Bartlett but of higher quality, 

 better color, and later season. Fruit large, obovate-pyriform, light yellow, with blushed 

 cheek, green mottling and black dots on shady side; flesh white, vinous, sprightly; very 

 good; Oct. and Nov. 

 Senfbirne. 1. Dochnahl Fithr. Obstkunde 2:183. 1856. 



Hanover. First published in 1852. Fruit medium, ventriculous and conic, often 

 somewhat turbinate, unattractive green turning yellowish, often darkly blushed, spotted; 

 flesh rather coarse, fairly juicy, sweet; first for household use; Oct. and Nov. for six 

 weeks. 

 Seringe. 1. Card. Chran. 1045. 1866. 



M. Nerard, a nurseryman at Lyons, Fr., obtained Seringe, which was published first 

 in 1S64. Fruit medium, oval, inclining to obovate, a little depressed at the ends; skin 

 citron or pale yellow, smooth, with some russet specks; flesh white, very melting and sugary; 

 Aug. 

 Serrurier. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 543. 1857. 2. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:660. 1869. 



Van Mons obtained this variety from seed at Louvain, Bel., about 1825. Fruit large; 

 form rather inconstant, passing from irregular ovate, swelled and much bossed, to ovate 

 more or less globular, and mammillate at the summit; skin thick, olive-yellow, closely 

 dotted with gray, stained with fawn around the calyx and touched w r ith some brown- 

 russet and occasionally vermilioned on the side exposed to the sun; flesh whitish, melting 

 or semi-melting, juicy, vinous and saccharine, possessing a tartish flavor and a particularly 

 pleasant aroma; first; Oct. and Nov. 

 Seutin. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 854. 1869. 



Poire Seutin. 2. Mas Pom. Gen. 5:143, fig. 360. 1880. 



According to Bivort the pear Seutin was obtained by M. Bouvier, Jodoigne, Bel. 

 Fruit medium, ovate-pyriform, more or less long, sometimes symmetrical, sometimes 

 rather angular in its contour; skin thick, firm, at first bright green sprinkled with dots 

 of green-g'-ay, changing to lemon-yellow tinged with golden-russet on the side next the 

 sun; flesh whitish, rather fine, gritty at the center, semi-buttery, fairly juicy, sweet, and 

 delicately perfumed; winter. 

 Sha Lea. 1. la. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 303. 1879. 2. Cornell Sta. Bid. 332:483. 1913. 



Chinese Sand. 3. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 851. 1869. 



A Chinese sand pear imported from China by Wm. R. Prince, Flushing, N. Y., about 

 1S20. Fruit medium, globular-pyriform, dull yellow, covered with a rough, sandy-like 

 russet; flesh firm, moderately juicy; cooks well and acquires a fine flavor; Sept. 

 Shawmut. 1. Mag. Hort. 25:209, fig. 14. 1859. 



Originated with Francis Dana, Roxbury, Mass. Fruit large, obtuse-pyriform, regular; 

 skin fair, nearly smooth, dull yellow at maturity, dotted with large, round, russet specks, 

 most numerous on the sunny side ; flesh yellowish, coarse, melting, very juicy, rich, vinous, 

 sprightly, with a pleasant musky perfume; Oct. 

 Shenandoah. 1. Mass. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 43. 1866. 



A seedling raised by S. A. Shurtleff, Brookline, Mass. It fruited first in 1862. Fruit 

 " Skin yellow; flesh fine-grained and sweet, keeps well, and is a good market pear; pyriform." 

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