THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 197 
mer pears can be found for New York, and for almost every part of the 
country. 
In the middle of the nineteenth century, Christopher Wiegel, a 
German nurseryman of Cleveland, Ohio, planted some seeds which he 
believed to have been from a Seckel pear. Out of the trees grown from these 
he selected two for further trial ‘‘ because of their early coming into bearing, 
their upright, vigorous habits of growth, profuse bearing, and good quality 
of fruit.” In 1866, Mr. Wiegel named one of these Mary but later changed 
the name to Margaret. 
Tree medium in size, vigorous, spreading, somewhat drooping, open-topped, pro- 
ductive; trunk shaggy; branches brown mingled with much red, overspread with thin 
gtay scarf-skin, marked by numerous lenticels; branchlets slender, long, with long inter- 
nodes, light reddish-brown, streaked with ash-gray scarf-skin, glossy, smooth, glabrous 
except on the newer growth, with numerous small, roundish, taised, conspicuous lenticels. 
Leaf-buds small, very short, pointed, appressed. Leaves 3 in. long, 12 in. wide, thin; 
margin tipped with few pinkish glands, finely serrate; petiole 13 in. long, green; stipules 
of medium size. Flower-buds small, short, conical, pointed, free, singly on short spurs; 
flowers showy, 13 in. long, large, in dense clusters, 6 or 8 buds in a cluster; pedicels 1} in. 
long, thick, pubescent. 
Fruit matures in late August and early September; medium in size, 3 in. long, 22 
in. wide, oblong-obovate-pyriform, irregular; stem 1} in. long, thick, curved; cavity 
acuminate, deep, narrow, russeted, furrowed and compressed, often with a pronounced 
lip; calyx open, large; lobes separated at the base, broad, acute, reflexed; basin deep, 
abrupt, furrowed, often compressed; skin thin, tender, smooth; color dull greenish-yellow, 
often with a deep but dull reddish-brown blush and occasional patches of russet; dots 
numerous, small, green or russet, obscure; flesh fine under the skin but granular and gritty 
near the center; tender, buttery, very juicy, faintly vinous, slightly aromatic; quality 
good. Core large, closed, with clasping core-lines; calyx-tube long, wide, funnel-shaped ; 
seeds large, wide, plump, obtuse or acute. 
MARIE LOUISE 
1. Pom. Mag. 3:122, Pl. 1830. 2. Prince Pom, Mag. 1:131. 1831. 3. Kenrick Am. Orch. 179. 1832. 
4. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 399. 1845. 5+ Hovey Fr. Am. 2:37, Pl. 1851. 6. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 
2:59. 1856. 7. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 70. 1862. 8. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:399, fig. 1869. 9. Guide Prat, 
59, 287. 1876. 10. Lauche Deut. Pom. Il: No. 38, Pl. 38. 1882. 11. Hogg. Fruit Man. 613. 1884. 
12. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 251. 1889. 
Marie-Louise Delcourt. 13. Pom. France 1: No. 19, Pl. 19. 1863. 14. Mas Le Verger 3: Pt. 1, 163, 
fig. 80. 1866-73. 
The fruits of Marie Louise are among the perfections of Nature, and 
were the tree more certain in bearing and less fastidious as to environment 
and care, the variety would rank as one of the best of all pears. Pomolo- 
