588 THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 



Zoar Beauty, i. Mag. Hort. 13:110. 1847. 2. Elliott Fr. Book 347, fig. 1854. 



Belle de Zoar. 3. Guide Prat. 112, 234. 1S76. 



Originated at Zoar, Ohio. Tree vigorous, an early and abundant bearer; shoots 

 dark brown. Fruit medium or below, acute-pyriform, light yellow, thickly dotted with 

 minute green dots, beautiful crimson or carmine in the sun with deep red dots ; stem long, 

 curved, slender, fleshy at insertion, often by a ring or lip, in a small cavity; calyx large 

 for size of fruit, open; lobes erect or recurved; flesh white, granular, half breaking, 

 moderately juicy, sweet, aromatic; good; early Aug. 

 Zoe. 1. Out. Fr. Gr. Assoc. Rpt. 72. 18S3. 2. Guide Prat. 101. 1895. 



A foreign sort, probably French. Tree very vigorous, thrifty. Fruit very large, 

 oblong, deep green; flesh tender, melting, sweet; Dec. and Jan. 



