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purposes. The trees are unusually satisfactory, because of which the 
variety should make a good parent from which to breed. 
The name ‘‘ Pound’’ has been applied to a number of varieties, notably 
Black Worcester, Angora, Verulam, and others. The variety now known 
as Pound in America is more generally known in Europe as Belle Angevine 
or Uvedale’s St. Germain. This sort appears to have been raised by a 
Dr. Uvedale, who was a schoolmaster at Eltham, England, in 1690. Miller 
in his Dictionary, in 1724, speaks of him as a Dr. Udal of Enfield, “a 
curious collector and introducer of many rare exotics, plants and flowers,” 
and Bradley, in 1733, speaks of the pear as ‘‘ Dr. Udale’s great pear, called 
by some the Union pear.” William Robert Prince mentions the Pound 
pear in 1831 saying that ‘‘ it often weighs from twenty-five to thirty ounces, 
and one was exhibited in New Jersey about four years since, weighing 
forty and a half ounces.”” In 1870, according to Wickson, a Pound pear 
sent from Sacramento to the late Marshall P. Wilder, President of the 
American Pomological Society, weighed four pounds and nine ounces. 
In 1862, the American Pomological Society added this variety to its fruit- 
catalog under the name Uvedale’s St. Germain, but in 1871 changed: the 
name to Pound. The name continued to appear in the Society’s catalogs 
until 1909 when it was dropped. 
Tree medium in size, upright, dense-topped, hardy, very productive; trunk stocky, 
shaggy; branches thick, shaggy, zigzag, dull reddish-brown, heavily covered with gray 
scarf-skin, marked with many large lenticels; branchlets short, with short internodes, 
brownish-red, mottled with gray scarf-skin, smooth, glabrous, with few small, elongated 
lenticels. 
Leaf-buds large, long, conical or pointed, plump, free; leaf-scars prominent. Leaves 
4¢ in. long, 33 in. wide, ovate, thin, stiff; apex taper-pointed; margin glandular, finely 
serrate; petiole 13 in. long, slender. Flower-buds large, long, conical or pointed, very 
plump, free, usually singly on short spurs; flowers open early, 13 in. across, large, well dis- 
tributed, average 7 buds in a cluster; pedicels 13 in. long, pubescent, pale green. 
Fruit matures in February; large, 4 in. long, 2} in. wide, uniform in size and shape, 
obovate-acute-pyriform, with unequal sides; stem long, thick, curved; cavity obtuse, 
very shallow, narrow, russeted, furrowed, drawn up in a fleshy ring about the stem; calyx 
large, open; lobes separated at the base, obtuse; basin shallow, narrow, obtuse, slightly 
furrowed, symmetrical; skin thick, tough, with patches of russet, dull, roughened by the 
dots and by the russet markings; color golden-yellow, often marked on the exposed cheek 
with a bronze or pinkish blush; dots numerous, russet, very conspicuous; flesh yellowish, 
firm, granular, very tough, subacid, inferior in flavor; quality very poor. Core large, 
closed, axile, with meeting core-lines; calyx-tube short, wide, conical; carpels pear-shaped; 
seeds very large, brownish-black, wide, long, acuminate. 
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