356 THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 
Délices de Chaumont. 1. Guide Prat. 72. 1876. 2. Mas Pom. Gen. 7:133, fig. 547. 
1881. , 
Fruit rather large, conic-ovate, olive spotted with gray; flesh white, buttery, melting, 
wanting in juice, very sweet; second, cooking. | 
Délices Everard. 1. Hogg Fruit Man. 558. 1884. 
Raised by Gabriel Everard, Tournay, Fr., in 1840. It was sent to England in 1865 and 
received a first-class certificate from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1875. Fruit 
small, globular-turbinate, smooth, shining, bright yellow, much speckled and marked with 
russet; flesh salmon tint, tender, buttery, melting, very juicy, sweet, delicious flavor and 
fine perfume; Oct. to Feb. 
Délices de Froyennes. 1. Hogg Fruit Man. 558. 1884. 
Raised by Isidore Degaud, Froyennes, Tournay, Fr. Fruit medium, oval, yellow 
covered with fawn-colored russet; flesh tender, melting, very juicy, sugary and perfumed, 
vinous; Oct. and Nov. 
Délices d’Hardenpont. 1. Liegel Syst. Anleit.o9. 1825. 2. Hogg Fruit Man. 558. 1884. 
Raised by Abbe Hardenpont, Mons, Bel., in 1759. There has been much confusion 
between this and Délices d’Hardenpont d’Angers and the Archiduc Charles and Charles 
of Austria. Fruit large, oblong-obovate-obtuse; skin smooth, bright green changing to 
yellow, with pale brown-russet dots; flesh white, tender, buttery, melting, rich, sweet, 
perfumed; good; Nov. 
Délices d’Hiver. 1. Mas Pom. Gen. 6:61, fig. 415. 1880. 2. Gard. Chron. N.S. 26:210. 
1886. 
Distributed by M. Dauvesse, Orléans, Fr., early in the latter half of the nineteenth 
century.. Fruit large; form variable from elongate-pyriform to globular-pyriform with 
short stalk set obliquely; skin thick, green, heavily dotted; flesh moderately fine, full of 
sugary juice, acid and delicately perfumed; Dec. to Jan. 
Délices de Huy. 1. Guide Prat. 56, 251. 1895. 
Fruit large, conic-pyriform, yellowish-green; flesh greenish-yellow, juicy, pleasantly 
perfumed; first; Sept. 
Délices de Jodoigne. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:15, fig. 1869. 2. Hogg Fruit Man. 559. 
1884. 
Obtained by Simon Bouvier, Jodoigne, Bel., in 1826. Fruit medium, pyriform, 
irregular, slightly obtuse and larger on one side of the axis than the other, grass-green on 
the shaded side and reddish-gray on the exposed face, covered with numerous very fine 
dots of fawn; flesh white, firm, breaking, sweet, juicy, refreshing and aromatic; first; Oct. 
Délices de Ligaudiéres. 1. Guide Prat. 60. 1895. 
Fruit medium, of the style of White Doyenné, but the stem thicker and shorter; flesh 
fine, melting; first; Oct. 
Délices de Lovenjoul. 1. Ann. Pom. Belge 6:65, fig. 1858. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 
734. 1869. 
Jules Bivort. 3. Leroy Dici. Pom. 2:15, fig. 1869. 
A seedling of Van Mons in whose catalog of 1828 it is No. sar. Fruit medium, 
obovate-obtuse-pyriform, greenish-yellow washed with orange-red, speckled all over with 
