348 THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 
pale red on the cheek next the sun; flesh yellowish-white, fine, melting, juicy, sugary, 
acidulous, having a pleasant flavor of musk; first; Nov. and Dec. 
Conkleton. 1. Ragan Nom. Pear, B. P. I. Bul. 126285. 1908. 
Raised in Texas from seed of Le Conte. Cataloged as “‘ new’”’ in 1902. 
Conklin. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 728. 1869. 
Originated in Westchester County, N.Y. Fruit medium large, oblate-obtuse-pyriform, 
greenish-yellow sprinkled with green and brown dots, russeted; flesh yellowish, coarse, 
half melting, sweet, juicy; good; Sept. 
Connecticut. 1. Field Pear Cult. 272. 1858. 
Raised in Connecticut. Fruit medium, oblate, yellowish-green; quality poor. 
Conseiller de Hollande. 1. Hogg Fruit Man. 554. 1884. 
Fruit large, pyramidal, golden-yellow, much covered with rather rough, cinnamon- 
colored russet, with a warm orange glow on the sun-exposed side, with some streaks of 
crimson, and some green specks and large dots on the shaded side; flesh firm and crisp, 
yellowish, not melting, deficient in juice, sweet and with a musky aroma; handsome but 
third rate; Oct. 
Conseiller Ranwez. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 1:599, fig. 1867. 2. Hogg Fruit Man. ss. 
1884. 
Raised by Van Mons; it fruited in 1841. Fruit large, pyramidal, bright green, covered 
with fawn dots, becoming yellow within a day or two of its ripening; flesh fine-grained, 
half-buttery, tender; juice plentiful, sugary, vinous and delicately perfumed; good but 
variable; Oct. and Nov. 
Constant Claes. 1. Guide Prat. 108, 260. 1876. 2. Mas Pom. Gen. 7:91, fig. 526. 
1881. 
A Belgian variety distributed in 1863 by de Jonghe. Fruit medium or rather large, 
conic-pyriform; skin thin and slender, pale green, washed on ripening with light orange-red; 
flesh white, fine, melting; juice abundant, sweet, vinous and pleasantly scented; first; Sept. 
Cooke. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 484. 1857. 2. Elliott Fr. Book 372. 1850. 
Place of origin, King George County, Va. Introduced by H. R. Roby, Fredericks- 
burg, Va. Fruit rather large, irregularly pyramidal, pale-yellow; flesh juicy, buttery, 
melting, sweet, rich, vinous; mid-season. 
Copia. 1. McIntosh Bk. Gard. 2:455. 1855. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 571. 1857. 
3. Ibid. 729. 1869. 
Originated about the middle of last century at Philadelphia. Fruit large, yellow, 
with specks of russet, broad-turbinate; flesh sugary, rather coarse, somewhat resembling 
the Beurré Diel in flavor; good; Sept. and Oct. 
Cornélie Daras. 1. Guide Prat. 89. 1895. 
Distributed by Daras de Naghin of Antwerp, Bel. Fruit medium, globular, lemon- 
yellow; flesh fine, melting, juicy, sugary and well perfumed; Nov. and Dec. 
Cornemuse. 1. Gard. Chron. 335. 1862. 2. Leroy Dict. Pom. 1:602, fig. 1867. 
This is one of the most ancient French pears and was cultivated in 1628 at Orléans, 
Le Lectier tells, under the name Chair de Fille but a little later under that of Cornemuse, 
it being described by Claude Saint-Etienne in 1670. Fruit below medium, long, somewhat 
