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awarded its raiser a bronze medal. Tree vigorous and productive, pyramidal, upright. 

 Fruit medium, turbinate to long-pyriform, symmetrical, uniformly green becoming yellow, 

 faintly pitted; stem short, stout; calyx medium, open; basin shallow; flesh white, melting, 

 juicy, sweet; good to very good; Jan. and Feb. 



Triomphe de Vienne. I. Can. Hon. 11:261. 1888. 2. Soc. Nat. Hort. France Pom. 

 446, fig. 1904. 



Triumph. 3. Can. Hort. 25:442, fig. 1902. 



Raised in 1864 by M. Jean Colland, Vienne, Fr., and first distributed in 1874, this pear 

 has been the recipient of several awards of merit. Tree vigorous, heavy-cropper, pyramidal. 

 Fruit large, obovate-pyriform, rather irregular, greenish-yellow, with russet patches, 

 often blushed with red; caly small ; seeds usually imperfect; flesh white, melting, 



juicy; flavor rich, sweet, spicy; very good; Sept. and early Oct. 

 Trompetenbirne. 1. Dochnahl Fiihr. Obstkunde 2:140. 1856. 



Poire Trompeite. 2. Mas Pom. Gen. 1:97, fig. 49. 1872. 



Diel obtained this variety at Schaumburg, Westphalia, but it appears to have originated 

 at Nassau, Prussia. Published in 1805. Fruit medium, pyriform-conic, often irregular 

 in form and uneven on the surface; skin rather thick and firm, light green changing to light 

 yellow, covered with numerous small, round, brown spots and on the side next the sun 

 blushed with wine-red; flesh whitish, semi-melting, granular; juice sufficient in quantity, 

 very vinous but a little too astringent; third for dessert, first for household; Oct. 

 Troppauer Goldgelbe Sommermuskatellerbirne. 1. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 2:41. 

 1856. 



Troppauer Muskateller. 2. Mathieu Norn. Pom. 291. 1889. 



Said to have originated about 1851 in Troppau, Silesia, Austria. Fruit medium 

 large, roundish, regular, bright yellow, frequently strongly russeted, flecked and dotted with 

 brown; stem thin, medium long; flesh coarse, very sweet and somewhat musky; Aug. 

 Truchsess. 1. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 2:20. 1856. 



Dochnahl credits this pear with having originated from seed in Dietz on the Lahn 

 River, Ger., about 1826. Tree large and very fruitful; twigs long, glabrous; lenticels long; 

 leaves ovate, entire. Fruit produced in clusters, medium large, roundish-ovate, bright 

 green becoming yellowish, frequently russeted, strongly dotted; Nov. 

 Truckhill Bergamot. 1. Mag. Hort. 11:327. 1845. 2 - Downing Fr. Trees Am. 869. 

 1869. 



Probably of English origin. Fruit medium or above, roundish-oblate, yellow with 

 crimson and fawn in the sun, sprinkled with gray and green dots ; stalk rather short ; cavity 

 deep ; calyx open ; basin deep, abrupt, uneven ; flesh half -melting, somewhat coarse and gritty, 

 moderately juicy; good; Sept. and Oct. 

 Tsar. 1. Can. Hort. 17:293. 1894. 



This is a Russian variety and may be synonymous with Czar and Tsarskaya. It 

 has been grown successfully in the Russian Province of Tambow, 53° north latitude 

 Tree very firm and wonderfully productive, pyramidal. Fruit moderate in size, conical, 

 yellow, red on the sunny side; flesh soft, mellow, agreeable; flavor mild; Aug. and Sept. 



