THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 193 
LOUISE BONNE DE JERSEY 
1. Kenrick Am. Orch. 148. 1841. 2. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 53. 1852. 3. Field Pear Cult. 218, fig. 
81. 1858. 
Louise Bonne of Jersey. 4. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 397, fig. 174. 1845. 5. Hovey Fr. Am. 1:39, 
Pl, 1851. 6. Jour. Hort. N. S. 38:161, fig. 26. 1880. 7. Hogg Fruit Man. 606. 1884. 
Gute Louise von Avranches. 8. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 2:138. 1856. 9. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 
229. 1889. 
Bonne Lowise d'Avranches. 10, Ann. Pom. Belge 6:29, Pl. 1858, 11. Pom France 1: No, 21, Pl. 21. 
1863. 12. Mas Le Verger 3: Pt. 1, 67, fig. 32. 1866-73. 13. Leroy Dict. Pom. 1:482, fig. 1867. 14. 
Guide Prat. 286. 1876. 
Louise. 15. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 23. 1897. 16. Ont. Dept. Agr. Fr. Ont. 170, fig. 1914. 
Now known in America as Louise, a name given it by the American 
Pomological Society, this variety is described under the name given it in 
England to distinguish it from at least eight other varieties having Louise 
as the whole or a part of the name. The pear is an old one, having many 
excellent qualities of fruit and tree, which, however, are not sufficiently 
above the average to give it high place in the list of pears for the market. 
The pears are medium to large, handsome, of excellent quality, and keep 
and ship well. These qualities have given it some preéminence as a pear 
for the export trade. The trees are precariously hardy and somewhat 
subject to blight, but very vigorous, productive, and long-lived. In 
Europe, the testimony of prominent pomologists agrees that the fruits are 
better and the trees more productive when worked on the quince, and in 
America the variety is considered one of the best for dwarfing. This pear 
is a standard one for home collections, and finds favor in many commer- 
cial orchards in New York. 
The parent tree of this pear was raised from seed about 1780 by M. 
de Longueval, Avranches, Normandy. Some authorities say that the 
variety was first named Bonne de Longueval; others, that M. de Longueval 
immediately dedicated the pear to his wife and called it Bonne Louise de 
Longueval. Later still, the Pomological Congress adopted the name of 
Bonne Louise d’Avranches, by which it became more generally known, 
though in England, it rather unfortunately became widely disseminated 
as Louise Bonne de Jersey, having, presumably, found its way there through 
the Channel Islands. The variety was brought to the United States early 
in the nineteenth century, and in 1852 was entered in the recommended 
list of fruits of the American Pomological Society. In 1897, this Society 
shortened the name to Louise. 
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