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first under the name Angleterre parfumée and was so published in 1835, but for some reason 
was renamed. Fruit rather above than below medium, turbinate, obtuse, swelled and 
always more enlarged on one side than on the other; skin rough to the touch, dull green, 
uniformly dotted with clear russet; flesh whitish, fine, breaking, gritty at the center; juice 
abundant, fresh, sweet, with a musky savor; first; Sept. and Oct. 
Angobert. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 1:142, fig. 1867. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 661. 
1869. 
A Gobert. 3. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:191. 1768. 
Toward the end of the eighteenth century, 1780-83, Henri Manger claimed that he 
had identified the Angobert with the Signina or Testacea of Columella and Pliny. Fruit 
very large, variable but generally obovate-pyriform, distorted, enlarged around the calyx 
end, dull yellow, dotted and streaked with fawn, washed with red on the side of the sun; 
flesh white, coarse, juicy, sweet, having a rather agreeable after-flavor of musk; third for 
the table but first for the kitchen. 
Angoisse. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom.1:145, fig. 1867. 
Winter Bon Chretien. 2. Hogg Fruit Man. 666. 1884. 
This is one of the most ancient French pears having been described in the year 1094 
in a chronological manuscript attributed to Geoffroy; the Prior of the Benedictine monastery 
of Vigeois in the Diocese of Limoges, in which it was stated to have derived its name from 
the village of Angoisse in the old Province of Limonsin, Fr. Fruit small to medium, turbi- 
nate, obtuse, swelled, golden-yellow, dotted, marbled with fawn and washed with brownish- 
red on the side to the sun; flesh whitish, slightly melting, coarse, always very gritty at 
the center; juice excessively abundant, acidulous, sugary; third for dessert, second for 
cooking, first for cider; Dec. to Apr. 
Angora. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 1:147, fig. 1867. 2. Mas Pom. Gen. 5:35, fig. 306. 1880. 
This is a member of a group of pears rather loosely termed Pound Pears. By some 
authors Angora is given as a synonym for Belle Angevine or Uvedale’s St. Germain. In an 
account of a voyage he undertook in 1700 on command of King Louis XIV of France, 
M. Tournefort, thesnoted botanist, states that he saw at Beibasas, Asia Minor, the pears 
known in Constantinople as Angora. In 1832, Léon Leclerc imported it into France 
from Constantinople, having obtained it with difficulty through the French Amabassador 
at the Golden Horn. Fruit above medium to large, pyriform, obtuse, swelled around 
the center, rather irregular in form; skin thick, hard to cut, pale yellow, finely dotted with 
fawn and bearing some patches of fawn; flesh white, rather coarse, semi-melting, gritty 
at the center; juice plentiful and rich in sugar after the manner of sweet wine, little perfume; 
second; Oct. and Nov. 
Angoucha. 1. Guide Prat. 82. 1876. 2. Mas Pom. Gen. 7:43, fig. 502. 188r. 
Originated in the Department of the Aube, France. In the arrondisements of Troyes 
and Bar-sur-Seine it is also called Courte queue i. e. “‘ Short Stem;” and by M. Baltet- 
Petit, it was described in the ‘‘ Annales de Flore et Pomone,” under the name Belle Chaouce, 
the name of the canton where it was very generally cultivated. Fruit medium, obtuse- 
conic-ovate, regular in contour, dark green sprinkled with numerous regularly spaced, 
brown dots often comingled under a cloud of russet of same color, at maturity the green 
