210 THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 
PRESIDENT DROUARD 
1. Gard. Chron. N. S. 251431. 1886. 2. Guide Prat. 51. 1895. 3. Cat. Cong. Pom. France 331, 
fig. 1906. 
Président Drouard. 4. Lucas Tafelbirnen 211, fig. 1894. 
Drouard. 5. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 35. 1899. 6. Budd-Hansen Am. Hort. Man. 2:241. 1903. 7. 
Mich. Sta. Sp. Bul. 27:22. 1903. 
Président Drouard has been on probation in the United States for 
nearly thirty years, but does not seem to be in great demand in any part 
of the country. In the pear-growing region of New York to which it first 
came, it is scarcely known. The accompanying description shows that the 
fruits contain all of the requisites of a good pear. The flesh is juicy, 
melting, saccharine, rich, and perfumed. The trees, however, are not 
satisfactory. They lack vigor, blight badly, and are niggardly in bearing. 
With these faults, there is no place for the variety in commercial plantations, 
but it may well be planted in home orchards and in collections. 
Président Drouard is a chance seedling found in the suburbs of Pont- 
de-Ce, Maine-et-Loire, France, by M. Olivier, gardener at the Fruit-Garden 
at Angers. It was sent out by M. Louis Leroy of Angers and was described 
in 1886 as anew pear. It seems to have been introduced in this country by 
Charles A. Green, Rochester, New York. The American Pomological Society 
added the variety to its list of fruits under the name Drouard in 1899. 
Tree of medium size, spreading, open-topped, usually hardy; branches reddish- 
brown, nearly covered with gray scarf-skin, marked with small lenticels; branchlets thick, 
long, greenish-brown mingled with red, dull, smooth, pubescent on the new growth, with 
numerous small, brownish, raised, conspicuous lenticels. 
Leaf-buds small, short, pointed, plump, free; leaf-scars with very prominent shoulders; 
Leaves 3 in. long, 12 in. wide, oval, thick, leathery; apex taper-pointed; margin glandless 
or with but few glands, entire or closely serrate; petiole glabrous, greenish, thick, 1% in. 
long, tinged red; stipules very short, tinged with pink. Flower-buds short, conical, very 
plump, free, arranged singly on short spurs; flowers 1% in. across, in dense clusters, 6 to 
9 buds in a cluster; pedicels 13 in. long, lightly pubscent, greenish. 
Fruit in season from late November to December; large, 33 in. long, 3 in. wide, oblong- 
obovate-pyriform, with unequal sides, uniform in shape; stem 1 in. long, very thick and 
woody; cavity obtuse, deep, irregular, furrowed, usually lipped; calyx large, open; lobes 
separated at the base, long, narrow, acuminate; basin deep, abrupt, usually smooth but 
sometimes gently furrowed; skin thick, tough, rough, dull; color clear lemon-yellow, with 
nettings and streaks of russet; dots numerous, small, russet, obscure; flesh tinged with 
yellow, very granular at the core, tender and melting, buttery, juicy, aromatic, sweet; 
quality good. Core large, closed, axile, with clasping core-lines; calyx-tube short, wide, 
conical; seeds large, wide, long, plump, acute, occasionally abortive. 
