358 THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 
in sun; flesh white, fine-grained, tender, almost melting, with sweet, delicious flavor; Oct. 
and Nov. 
Denis Dauvesse. 1. Guide Prat. 110. 1876. 
Fruit medium to large, long-pyriform; flesh fine, melting, pleasantly perfumed; Sept. 
Des Chartreux. 1. Mas Le Verger 2:171, fig. 84. 1866-73. 
Origin uncertain. Fruit small or nearly medium, obovate-obtuse-pyriform, light green, 
speckled with dots of a very deep green, washed with light red on the sunny side; flesh slightly 
yellow, fine, more firm than breaking; juice sugary, acidulous, slightly perfumed; second; 
Aug. , 
Des Deux Seeurs. 1. Gard. Chron. 463. 1863. 
The original tree was found in the garden of the Misses Knopp of Mechlin, Bel. Fruit 
medium, oblong,-lemon-yellow; flesh melting, juicy, sugary, slightly astringent but wanting 
in perfume and flavor; grown both in Belgium and France; not first class. 
Désiré Cornélis. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:18, fig. 1869. 2. Hogg Fruit Man. 560. 1884. 
The parent tree was from seed sown by Van Mons; first bore fruit in 1847. Fruit 
large, oblong-oval, obtuse; skin very fine, pale yellow and often orange-yellow, dotted 
and netted with greenish-gray; flesh very tender, buttery, melting; juice plentiful, sugary, 
deliciously perfumed; first; Sept. 
Dessauer Weissbirne. 1. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 2:35. 1856. 
North German, 1804. Fruit medium, smooth, pale greenish-yellow changing to citron 
yellow, sometimes rather lightly blushed; flesh fine, somewhat soft, sweet, aromatic; good; 
Aug. 
Deutsche Augustbirne. 1. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 202. 1889. 
D’ Aout Allemande. 2. Mas Pom. Gen. 7:65, fig. 513. 188r. 
A German variety much cultivated in Saxony. Fruit small, ovate; skin rather thick, 
dull green, sprinkled with small and numerous gray dots, becomes yellow on ripening and 
somewhat blushed in the sun; flesh green and veined with green, semi-fine, buttery; juice 
sufficient, sugary, vinous, acid, pleasant; good; Aug. 
Deutsche Glasbirne. 1. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 2:69. 1856. 
German, 1811. Fruit medium, globular-turbinate, bent toward stalk, uniformly 
light yellow, blushed with russety-red on the side of the sun; flesh sweet; -good; Sept. 
Deutsche Kiimmelbirne. 1. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obsikunde 2:157. 1856. 
German, 1802. Fruit small, globular, dirty yellow, washed with russet; flesh very 
tender, sweet, strongly aromatic and perfumed; good; Sept. 
Deutsche Muskateller. 1. Liegel Syst. Anleit. 106. 1825. 2. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 202. 
1889. ; 
Muscat Allemand d’Hiver. 3. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:4309, fig. 1869. 
German Muscat. 4. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 772. 1869. 
An old pear of uncertain origin. La Quintinye mentioned it without description 
in 1690, but in 1768 Duhamel du Monceau gave a careful description to distinguish between 
it and Royale d’Hiver which it somewhat resembles. Fruit medium or above, obovate- 
obtuse-pyriform, pale yellow, speckled with numerous large, gray dots; flesh yellowish, 
semi-fine, semi-melting, juicy, granular, sweet, slightly astringent; second; Mar. to May. 
