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russet, conspicuous; flesh tinged with yellow, granular under the skin, tender, moderately 
juicy, vinous; quality good. Core large, closed, axile, with meeting core-lines; calyx- 
tube short, wide, conical; carpels ovate; seeds medium in size, width, and plumpness, 
obtuse. 
ROOSEVELT 
1. Gard. Chron. 3rd Ser. 37:243, fig. 92. 1905. 2. Rev. Hort. 454. 1905. 3. Rural N. Y. 54:826, fig. 
352. 1905. 4. Bunyard Cat. 43. 1913-14. 5. Bunyard Handb. Hardy Fr. 195. 1920. 
This variety is still on probation in America, with the chances strongly 
against it proving worthy to bear the name of the man after whom it was 
called. On the grounds of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station, 
the fruits are too small, too poorly colored, and too poor in quality to 
compete with those of a score of other sorts of the same season. The core 
is remarkably small, and the seeds are few and small, but these are insufficient 
merits to count against the several defects named. The tree is robust and 
generally satisfactory. The variety may not be at its best on the grounds 
of this Station, as in Europe it was heralded as a most remarkable sort — 
one “‘ destined to bring about a revolution in pear-growing.” It may be 
worth further trial in New York. 
This pear was introduced in 1905 by the noted French pomologist 
Charles Baltet, Troyes, France, after he had tested it for several years. 
He named it after President Roosevelt. The variety was approved at 
Horticultural Congresses in Paris, Lyons, and Orléans, as well as by the 
Royal Horticultural Society of London. It was received in America shortly 
after its dissemination in France. 
Tree medium to large, vigorous, very upright, dense-topped, rapid-growing, productive; 
trunk slender, smooth; branches slender, smooth, glossy reddish-brown, mottled and over- 
laid with gray scarf-skin, marked with numerous small, raised lenticels; branchlets char- 
acteristically thick, with blunt ends, long, with short internodes, dull reddish-brown 
mingled with gray scarf-skin, smooth, glabrous, with many large, raised lenticels. 
Leaf-buds long, conical, sharply pointed, plump, free; leaf-scars with prominent 
shoulders. Leaves 3 in. long, 13 in. wide, stiff; apex taper-pointed; margin usually 
glandless, finely serrate to almost entire; petiole 2 in. long, slender, curved. Flower- 
buds large, long, conical, pointed, free, singly on short spurs; flowers with a disagreeable 
odor, early, showy, 1% in. across, in dense clusters, average 7 buds in a cluster; pedicels 
12 in. long, thick, pubescent. 
Fruit ripens in late September and October; medium in size, about 275 in. in length 
and width, roundish-obtuse-pyriform, symmetrical; stem 1 in. long, thick; cavity very shal- 
low, or lacking, faintly lipped; calyx very open, large; lobes separated at the base, narrow, 
acute; basin shallow, wide, obtuse, smooth, symmetrical; skin unusually thick, tough, 
smooth, dull; color pale lemon-yellow, mottled and netted with russet, with a faint blush; 
