284 THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 
tour, bright green changing to yellowish-green, lightly washed with red-brown on the cheek 
exposed to the sun, dotted and marbled with fawn-russet; flesh greenish-white, fine, melting, 
tender, rich, very juicy, sugary, some acidity, agreeably perfumed; first; Sept. and Oct. 
Beurré Ananas. 1. Hogg Fruit Man. 510. 1884. 
Fruit small, pyriform, regular in outline, yellow, with red blush on side next the sun, 
and streaks of crimson; flesh yellowish, semi-buttery, melting, very juicy and sweet, with 
a strong odor of musk; inferior; end of Oct. 
Beurré d’Angleterre. 1. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:197. 1768. 2. Leroy Dict. Pom. 
I:297, fig. 1867. 
Angleterre. 3. Hogg Fruit Man. 481. 1884. 
The first description of this pear was given by Le Lectier, Orléans, in 1628. The proba- 
bility is that it was imported to France by Le Lectier early in the seventeenth century from 
England. It is grown extensively around Paris for the supply of the markets where it 
it is in very general demand in September. Fruit medium, acute-pyriform, bright green- 
yellow, dotted very regularly with small, russet spots; flesh white, buttery, melting, very 
juicy, sugary and richly flavored; good dessert pear; Sept. 
Beurré Antoine. 1. Mas Pom. Gen. 7:180, fig. 572. 1881. 2. Leroy Dict. Pom. 
I:299, fig. 1867. 
Raised at Lyons, Fr., by M. Nérard, nurseryman, in 1822 from a bed of seeds of White 
Doyenné. Fruit about medium size, oblong-obovate-pyriform; color yellowish-green; 
flesh granulated, very melting, rich in sugar; early Sept. 
Beurré Antoinette. 1. Aun. Pom. Belge 7:61, fig. 1859. 2. Leroy Dict. Pom. 1:300, 
fig. 1867. 
A gain of Alexandre Bivort at Geest-Saint-Rémy, Bel., in 1846. Fruit medium, 
sometimes larger, oblong-obtuse-pyriform; golden-yellow, dotted and mottled with brown, 
stained with fawn around the stem and often colored on the side next the sun; flesh greenish- 
white, semi-fine, semi-melting, gritty around the core; juice abundant, acid, sugary, aromatic; 
first; Oct. 
Beurré Aqualine. 1. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 2:116. 1856. 
‘A seedling of Van Mons published in 1833. Fruit medium, long-obtuse-oval, light 
green turning to yellow-green, dotted with whitish-gray; flesh semi-fine, white, extremely 
juicy; first class for all purposes; end of Dec. 
Beurré de l’Assomption. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 1:303, figs. 1867. 2. Pom. France 4: 
No. 166, Pl. 166. 1867. 
M. Ruillié de Beauchamp, Goupillére, Nantes, Fr., obtained cions of a pear raised by 
an amateur. These grafts gave fruit in 1863. J. J. Thomas wrote briefly of it in the 
American Fruit Culturist in 1885. Fruit very large, pyramidal-obtuse, but rather variable, 
undulating and bossed, lemon-yellow, dotted and streaked with russet; flesh white, semi- 
fine, melting, juicy, slightly gritty around the core; juice abundant, saccharine, acidulous, 
vinous and delicately perfumed; first in France, rather disappointing in England; Aug. 
Beurré Audusson. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 1:305, fig. 1867. 
Raised from seed by Anne-Pierre Audusson, Angers, Fr., in 1833 or 1834. Fruit 
below medium, pyriform, slightly obtuse, even in contour, greenish, sprinkled with large 
