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Auguste Miguard. 1. Guide Prat. 82. 1876. 2. W. N. Y. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 25. 1896. 
Introduced in France by M. Grégoire. Fruit rather large, oblong, somewhat 
resembling Louise Bonne de Jersey in shape and color, yellow, with dull red cheek on the 
sunny side; flesh melting, vinous, very juicy and of a pleasing flavor; first; Oct. to Dec. 
Auguste Royer. 1. Ann. Pom. Belge 3:11, fig. 1855. 2. Leroy Dict. Pom. 1:168, fig. 
1867. 
Raised by Van Mons and when brought under the notice of the royal Commission 
of Pomology in 1853 it was given the name of the President of the Commission. Fruit 
medium, obovate-obtuse-pyriform, one side being habitually more swelled out than the 
other; color dull yellow, dotted with gray, and almost entirely covered with fawn; flesh 
whitish, fine, melting, juicy, gritty around the core, sugary, acid, with pleasant perfume; 
first; Nov. Tree very vigorous. 
Augustine. 1. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 2:110. 1856. 2. Mas Le Verger 2:189, fig. 
93. 1866-73. 
Originated by Van Mons, 1823. Fruit medium, obovate-obtuse-pyriform, light 
green changing to yellowish-green, blushed with rose on the side next the sun, dotted with 
gray-green specks; flesh nearly white, slightly veined with yellow, fine, melting, full of 
sweet juice, delicately perfumed and refreshing; good; early Aug. 
Augustine Lelieur. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 1:169, fig. 1867. 2. Mas Pom. Gen. 5:43, 
fig. 310. 1880. 
This variety is considered to be of Belgian origin. Leroy received it from the garden 
of the Society of Van Mons, Louvain, in 1854, and Mas received it at Bourg from a 
nurseryman at Wetteren, East Flanders, in 1859. Fruit above medium, oblong-obovate- 
pyriform, a little swelled, bossed, stalk bearing spines and implanted obliquely, greenish- 
yellow, russet and brown spots, stripes of fawn around the stalk; flesh white, fine, melting, 
gritty, sufficiently juicy, sugary, acid and delicate in flavor; first; Oct. and Nov. 
Augustus Dana. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 663. 18609. 
Originated by Francis Dana of Boston, Mass. Fruit medium to rather large, globular- 
obtuse and varying from acute-pyriform to obtuse-pyriform, yellow, russeted; flesh 
whitish, juicy, melting, sweet, slightly aromatic; first; Oct. 
Aurate. 1. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 22122, Pl. III. 1768. 2. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 
2:26. 1856. 
This ancient French pear appeared under the name Muscat de Nancy in Le Lectier’s 
Catalogue de son verger et plant in 1628, and was sold in Nancy over 300 years ago. 
It is extensively grown in Germany in the valleys of the Rhine and in the plains of Coblenz 
and Mayence under the name of Petit-Muscat rouge, Muscat d’été, Goldbirne, etc. Fruit 
small, growing in clusters, turbinate, ventriculous, obtuse, regular in contour, dark green 
at first, dotted with fawn, streaked with brownish-red in the cavity and washed with 
rose where exposed to the sun; flesh yellowish-white, semi-fine and semi-melting, juicy, 
generally gritty, saccharine, vinous, delicately musky; first; late Aug. 
Auray. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 1:171, fig. 1867. 
This was a chance seedling which originated in Brittany. Leroy states that he 
cultivated it in Anjou and first entered it in his catalog in 1851. Fruit rather large, ovoid, 
