626 



THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 



Pear-diseases, no 

 -districts in America, minor, 51 

 -growing, a comparison of English and American, 



37 

 -insects, 117 

 -mites, 119 

 -orchards, care of, 97; catch crops for, 102; sod 



versus clean culture for, 102; tillage of, 102 

 -psylla, 118 



-scab, 114; treatment of, 114 

 -slug, 1 19 



-stocks, notes on, 95 

 -thrips, 121 



-trees, characters of, 59; description of leaf -buds 

 and leaves of, 61 ; description of trunk and 

 branches of, 60; flower-buds and flowers of, 62; 

 age of, 40; setting of, notes on, ioi 

 -varieties, adaptability of, for dwarfing, 95; 

 blight resistant, 112; blooming season of, 88; 

 ripening season of, 88 



Pears, canning of, 109; cold storage of, 109; com- 

 mercial, leading varieties of, 84; cost of growing. 

 no; descriptions of species of, >'> 

 the setting of fruit of, 99; fertilizers for, 98; grad- 

 ing of, 108; grafting of, 106; har-' 

 harvesting and marketing of, 106; horr.' 

 of, 109; local market for, 101 ; methods of planting 

 of, 99; mixed varieties of, in orchards, 100; occi- 

 dental, description of species of, 69; oriental, 

 description of species of, 74; pruning of. 1 

 fertile varieties of, 100; self-sterile varieties of, 

 100; soils and locations for, 91 ; wild, 1 ; wild, 

 species of, 2 



Peche (syn. of Peach), 494 



Peck, Thomas R., orig. of Royal, 532 



Pei-li, 494 



Pemberton, 494 



Penderson, 494 



Penderson, Samuel, orig. of Penderson, 494 



Pendleton Early York, 494 



Pengethley, 494 



Perm, 494 



P nnsylvania, 494 



Pepin, 495 



Perpetual, 495 



Perrier, 495 



Perry, William, introd. of Lincoln Coreless, 192 



Pertusati, 495 



Pests, damage to American pears by, 38 



Petersbime, 495 



Petit-Blanquet, 495 



Petit Catillac, 496 



Petit-Chaumontel, 496 



Petit-Hativeau, 496 



Petit-Muscat, 496 



Petit-Oin, 496 



Petite Bergamotte Jaune d'ltle (syn. of Kleine gelbe 

 Sommermuskatellerbirne), 435 



Petite Charlotte, 497 



Petite Comtesse Palatine (syn. of Kleine Pfalzgrafin) 

 436 



Petite Fondante, 497 



Petite Marguerite, 497 



Petite Muscat Long d'ltU (syn. of Kleine Lange 



Sommer-Muskatellerbirne), 436 

 Petite Poire de Pierre (syn. of Petersbime), 495 

 Petite Tournaisiennc, 497 

 Petite Victorine, 497 



variety to originate in America, 51 

 Pfaffenbimc, 497 

 Pfingstbirnc, 498 



■'•,498 

 Philipp der Cute (syn. of Philippe-Le-Bon), 498 

 Philippe-Le-Bon, 498 

 Philippe Couvreur, 498 

 Philippe Goes, 498 

 Philipp- 



Philippot, orig. of Philippot, 498 

 Philopcna, 498 

 1. 498 



Warden pear tree, 44 

 Pkhering (syn. of Pound), 208 

 Pie IX, 



Pied-de- Yache (syn. of Kuhfuss), 439 

 rneille, (99 



199 

 Pil rri Mai <', 499 

 Pierre Patcrnotte, 499 



499 

 ■ 'urasse, 499 

 Pimpe, 499 

 Pink-rot of pear, 1 1 7 



■ 499 



Pitmaston, 207 



Pitmaston, William, orig. of Bergamot Seckel, 268 



Pitmaston Duchess (syn. of Pitmaston), 207 



Pitmaston Duchesse d'Angouleme (syn. of Pit- 

 maston), 207 



Piton, 500 



Piton, discov. of Piton, 500 



Pitson, 500 



Pius IX (syn. of Pie IX), 498 



Pius X, 500 



Plantagenet, 500 



Planting methods for pears, 99 



Plascart, 500 



Piatt, 500 



Platte Honigbirne, 500 



Pliny, medicinal qualities ascribed to pears by, 10; 

 mention of pear varieties by, 8; pear character- 

 istics given by, 9 



Plutarch, discussion of the pear in Greece by, 4 



Pocahontas, 500 



Pockelbirne, 501 



Poete Beranger, 501 



Poire d'Abbeville, 501 



Poire d' Amour d'Htier (syn. of Winterliebesbirne), 



584 

 Poire d'Ange de Meiningen, 501 

 Poire d'Aunee d'Ete (syn. of Sommeralantbime), 



548 

 Poire d'Avril, 501 



