322 THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 
Burchardt Butterbirne. 1. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde a:114. 1856. 
Considered by Dochnahl to be a seedling raised in 1833. Fruit medium, rather 
variable, globular-ovate, uniformly bright lemon-yellow, sprinkled with fine russet; flesh 
rather yellowish, semi-melting, aromatic, sweet; first; all Oct. 
Buree Winter. 1. Langley Pomona 131. 1729. 
Fruit medium, globular-obtuse-pyriform, somewhat depressed at both stalk and 
calyx, speckled all over; may be gathered early in September and in season Feb. to Apr.; 
first class. 
Burgoyne. 1. Ragan Nom. Pear, B. P. I. Bul. 126268. 1908. 
Fruit large, oblong-pyriform, greenish-yellow, blushed with russet; flesh melting, juicy, 
sweet; good; season medium. 
Burkett. 1. Ill. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 144. 1880. 2. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 236. 1911. 
Reported to the Illinois Horticultural Society in 1880 by C. S. Capps of Mt. Pulaski 
who described it as a “‘ miserable apology’’ for a pear, though exempt from blight. It was 
mentioned in a communication to the American Pomological Society in 1911 by Charles 
G. Patten, Charles City, Iowa, as a variety which originating in Illinois had resisted blight 
for a period of forty-five years in South Iowa. It has been suggested that this and Sudduth 
may be the same. 
Burlingame. 1. Mag. Hort. 15:344. 1849. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 711. 186g. 
Raised from seeds of pears planted in 1790. In 1830 Dr. S. P. Hildreth, Marietta, 
Ohio, sent a description of the pear to the Massachusetts Horticultural Society which 
named it after Mrs. Burlingame of Marietta who had originally saved the seeds. Fruit 
below medium, globular-oblate, pale yellow, blushed with red on the sun-exposed side and 
covered with small, russet specks; flesh white, coarse, melting and juicy, rich, sugary, 
perfumed; Aug. and Sept. 
Burnett. 1. Kenrick Am. Orch. 139. 1841. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 712. 1869. 
Raised by Joel Burnett, Southborough, Mass., in the early half of the nineteenth 
century. Fruit large, obtuse-pyriform, pale yellow, with much iron-russet and flushed on 
side next the sun; flesh greenish-white, rather coarse-grained but rich, musky, juicy, sweet; 
excellent; Oct. and Nov. 
Butt Pear. 1. Hogg Fruit Man. 539. 1884. 
A pear grown in England especially around Ledbury, Herefordshire, for the production 
of perry. Fruit small, globular-obovate, lemon-color, strewed with minute, russety dots; 
flesh yellowish, coarse-grained, granular, acidulous. 
Butterartige Bergamotte. 1. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 2:79. 1856. 
No. 33 in the Van Mons collection, 1834. Fruit small, long-globular, dark yellow, 
much covered with red-russet; flesh yellowish-white, semi-melting, sweet, firm, aromatic, 
suitable for espalier; beginning of Nov. 
Biittner Sachsische Ritterbirne. 1. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 2:23. 1856. 
Potre de Chevalier de Butiner. 2. Mas Pom. Gen. 4:145, fig. 265. 1879. 
According to Diel this variety originated in the environs of Halle, Prussia. Fruit 
medium or nearly medium, globular-turbinate or globular-ovate, often irregular in contour, 
a lively green sprinkled with dots of gray-green changing to brilliant lemon-yellow at 
