184 THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 
spreading over the exposed cheek; dots numerous, very small, greenish-russet, conspicuous; 
flesh whitish, granular especially at the center, medium tender, juicy, aromatic, sweet but 
vinous; quality good. Core small, closed, with clasping core-lines; calyx-tube short, wide, 
conical; seeds small, narrow, short, plump, acute. 
LAMY 
1, Ragan Nom. Pear, B. P. I. Bul. 126:161. 1908. 
Comte de Lamy. 2. Kenrick Am. Orch. 141. 1841. 3. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 371, fig. 158. 1845. 
4. Gard. Chron. 20, fig. 1846. 5. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 727. 1869. 6. Jour. Hort. N.S. 38:359, fig. 
52. 1880. 7. Hogg Fruit Man. 553. 1884. 
Poire Dingler. 8. Ann.Pom. Belge 2:69, Pl. 1854. 
Beurré Curtet. 9. Pom. France 2: No. 77, Pl. 77. 1864. 10. Leroy Dict. Pom. 1:341, figs. 1867. 
11. Guide Prat. 65, 243. 1876. 
Curtet's Butterbirne. 12. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 200. 1889. 
As the history shows, this is an old European pear which had its 
probationary period in America many years ago, and which never got out 
of the limbo of nurserymen’s catalogs and collections. On the grounds 
of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station, however, the pears 
are so handsome and so delectable in quality that the variety seems quite 
worth while describing and illustrating among the major sorts. It is a 
splendid pear for the home orchard, but the tree is not large nor robust 
enough for a commercial plantation. A few nurserymen still list it. 
This variety was raised from seed about 1828 by M. Bouvier, Jodoigne, 
Belgium. It was first named Beurré Curtet in honor of M. Curtet, a 
physician and professor at Brussels. The London Horticultural Society 
first obtained the variety under the name Comte de Lamy, by which name 
it has best been known in England. Lamy was early introduced to 
America where trees have long been found in collections. 
Tree small, spreading, open-topped, hardy, productive: trunk slender, shaggy; branches 
slender, shaggy, dull brown, overspread with thick scarf-skin, sprinkled with numerous 
lenticels; branchlets slender, curved, short, with short internodes, brown changing to 
reddish-brown on the newer growth, glossy, smooth, glabrous, with small, raised, conspic- 
uous lenticels. 
Leaf-buds small, short, conical, pointed, plump, free. Leaves 2$ in. long, 13 in. wide, 
leathery; apex taper-pointed; margin finely serrate to nearly entire, tipped with few minute 
glands; petiole 1 in. long, pinkish. Flower-buds large, thick, long, conical, very plump, 
free, singly as lateral buds or on very short spurs; flowers late, very showy, 13 in. 
across, in dense clusters, average 9 buds in a cluster; pedicels § in. long, thick, lightly 
pubescent. 
Fruit matures in late October and early November; medium in size, 24 in. long, 2 in. 
wide, obovate-obtuse-pyriform, often irregular and with unequal sides; stem 1} in. long, 
