550 THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 



confounded with the Souvenir d'Esperen raised by M. Bivort. Fruit medium or rather 

 large, conic-pyriform, often a little irregular in contour; skin fine, thin, water-green, sprinkled 

 with large brown dots, both numerous and prominent and patches of russet, changing 

 to lemon-yellow at maturity, the russet becoming golden; flesh white, a little tinted with 

 yellow, rather fine, buttery, melting; juice sufficient in amount and highly saccharine 

 and perfumed; good; Oct. 



Souvenir Favre. i. Ann. Pom. Beige 8:65, fig. i860. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 

 2nd App. 134. 1872. 



Originated by M. Favre, Chalons, Fr., from seed of Glou Morceau planted in 1850. 

 Fruit medium to below, conic-pyriform, pale yellow, dotted with many brown and green 

 dots; stem short, rather stout, in a slight cavity; calyx open; basin small, uneven, slightly 

 russeted; flesh whitish, slightly coarse, half -melting, juicy, sweet, aromatic; good to very 

 good; Oct. 

 Souvenir de Gaete. 1. Lcroy Diet. Pom. 2:671, fig. 1869. 



M. Ruilk' de Beauchamp obtained the Souvenir de Gaete from seed of the Beurro" 

 de l'Assomption. It received the recommendation of the pomological committee of the 



'cultural Society of Paris. Fruit above medium and sometimes large, irregular- 

 turbinate or ovate, mammillate at the top and ventriculated at the middle, bright yellow, 

 finely dotted and streaked with fawn and extensively washed with tender rose on the 

 cheek opposed to the sun; flesh white, very fine, melting and free from granulations; juice 

 very abundant, saccharine, refreshing and vinous with a characteristic perfume and flavor; 

 first; Oct. 

 Souvenir de Julia. 1. Guide Prat. 60. 1895. 



Sent out by M. Daras de Naghin of Antwerp, Bel. Tree vigorous and fertile. Fruit 

 medium, globular, whitish-yellow, blushed with rose; flesh fine, semi-melting, saccharine, 

 juicy; first; Oct. and Nov. 



Souvenir de Leroux-Durand. 1. Mathieu .Vow. Pom. 285. 1889. 2. Guide Prat. 100. 

 1895. 



Published in Germany in 1879. Tree vigorous and fertile. Fruit large or very large, 

 oblong, bright yellow, stained with golden-russet; flesh very melting, vinous, highly sac- 

 charine and very agreeably perfumed; first; Oct. 

 Souvenir de Lydie. 1. Guide Prat. 58. 1S95. 



A Belgian variety disseminated by Daras de Naghin of Antwerp. Fruit rather large, 

 Doyenne in form, greenish-yellow; flesh semi-fine, melting, highly saccharine; first; 

 Oct. 



Souvenir de Madame Charles. 1. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 285. 1889. 2. Guide Prat. 100. 

 1895. 



Raised by M. Sannier, Rouen, Fr., from seed of Serrurier. Tree vigorous, fertile 



and suitable for all forms of cultivation. Fruit medium to large, having the form of the 



Passe Colmar, gray; flesh very fine, melting, saccharine and perfumed; Dec. and Jan. 



Souvenir de la Reine des Beiges. 1. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:673, fig. 1869. 2. Downing 



Fr. Trees Am: 857. 1869. 



Xavier Gregoire, Jodoigne, Bel., obtained this pear in 1855. Fruit above medium, 



