IDENTIFICATION OF PEAR VARIETIES 43 



AAA Leaf usually long oval or elliptic 



B One-year bark usually reddish brown 



C Leaf blade moderately large (even to tips of shoots) Duchess 



CC Leaf blade moderately small 



D Leaf margin coarsely waved 



E Surface smooth, not pubescent Caywood 



EE Surface slightly rugose with depressed veins, 



pubescent Koonce 



DD Leaf margin essentially even 



E Growing tips green Vermont Beauty 



EE Growing tips reddish tinged 



F Leaf tip acute to acuminate, surface mod- 

 erately semi-glossy, serrations serrate. . . Flemish Beauty 

 FF Leaf tip acute, surface dull, serrations dull 

 serrate with many young leaves prac- 

 tically entire Parker 



BB One-year bark greenish brown, yellowish brown, or brown 

 C Crooked growth 



D Shoots slender, growing tips red .Winter Nelis 



DD Shoots stout, growing tips reddish tinged Ewart 



CC Reasonably straight growth 



D Leaf very glossy Dana Hovey 



DD Leaf semi-glossy to dull 



E Leaf essentially flat Garber 



EE Leaf broad to medium V-folded 



F Serrations rather deep, margin coarsely 



waved Sheldon 



FF Serrations very shallow, margin mostly 



even Conference 



EEE Leaf medium to narrow V-folded . . Cornice 



EEEE Leaf usually U-folded 



F Pubescence near terminal orange Douglas 



FF Pubescence near terminal white or gray 



G Leaf rather large with crooked mid- 

 rib, drooping Anjou 



GG Leaf moderately small to medium, 

 not drooping 

 H Serrations moderately deep. 



prominent Lincola 



HH Serrations shallow to very 

 shallow 



I Grownig tips green to 

 reddish tinged 

 J Leaf tip long, shoots 



mostly straight. .. .Cope's Seedless 

 JJ Leaf tip medium in 

 length, shoots 



zigzag Cayuga 



II Growing tips reddish Pulteney 



