THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 365 
Etienne in 1660. Worth growing for ornament, its large, double flowers, with from twelve 
to fifteen petals, being very handsome. Fruit above medium, globular or globular-tur- 
binate, generally enlarged on one side more than on the other, green but yellow when ripe, 
dark red or pale purple on the side of the sun; flesh greenish, semi-fine, quite crisp, juicy, 
sweet, rather sugary; excellent culinary pear; Feb. to May. 
Double de Guerre. 1. Garden 56:426. 1899. 2. Bunyard Handb. Hardy Fr. 167. 1920. 
Introduced into England from Mechlin, Bel., about 1835. Tree hardy, productive. 
Fruit medium to above, pyriform, tapering to the stem, yellow-brown speckled with russet; 
stem short, stout, generally obliquely inserted; calyx open in a shallow basin; flesh yellow, 
firm, slightly acid; Dec. to Feb. 
Double-Plouvier. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:47, fig. 1869. 
Origin and age uncertain. Fruit above medium, long-ovate, more or less bossed, 
greenish, dotted all over with gray-russet; flesh whitish, semi-fine, semi-melting, scented; 
juice moderate but sugary; first for the kitchen; Jan. to Mar. 
Double Rousselet. 1. Ann. Pom. Belge 6:21, fig. 1858. 2. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:48, 
fig. 1869. 
Raised by Major Espéren, Mechlin, Bel., about 1845. Fruit medium, globular- 
turbinate, regular in contour; skin fine, tender, green but almost entirely covered with 
cinnamon-colored russet; when ripe the russet becomes more golden and warmer in tint 
on the side next the sun; flesh white, very fine, melting, with abundant sugary juice, vinous, 
very agreeable; first; Oct. 
Dow. 1. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 92. 1858. 2. Elliott Fr. Book 377. 1859. 3. Downing 
Fr. Trees Am. 741. 1860. 
Raised by Dr. Eli Ives, New Haven, Conn., in the middle of the nineteenth century. 
Fruit above medium, obovate, acutely pryiform, sometimes turbinate; skin rough, yellow- 
ish-green, with russet patches and dots; flesh white, buttery, juicy, melting, vinous flavored 
sometimes slightly astringent; good; Sept. and Oct. 
Dowler. 1. Mag. Hort. 4:193. 1838. 
Exhibited before the London Horticultural Society in 1838, under the name of 
Dowler’s seedling. A small winter pear, described as one of the best and a good keeper. 
Downton. 1. McIntosh Bk. Gard. 2:455. 1855. 2. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:50, fig. 1869. 
Raised by T. A. Knight, Downton Castle, Eng., about 1840. Fruit medium or above, 
oval, somewhat irregular, greenish-yellow changing to lemon-yellow, a good deal russeted 
particularly on the side next the sun where it is completely covered and assumes a 
reddish-brown tinge; flesh whitish, not quite melting but tender, fine, free from grit, 
agreeably acidulous, sweet and juicy, with some taste of orange; first; Nov. and Dec. 
Doyen Dillen. 1. Ann. Pom. Belge 4:27, fig. 1853. 2. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2: 51, fig. 
1869. 
From seed sown by Van Mons at Louvain in 1827. Fruit medium to large, pyriform- 
conic, yellow, much covered with dots and patches of russet; flesh white, buttery, melting, 
free from grit; juice rather abundant, sweet, rich and pleasantly perfumed; first; Nov. 
Doyenné Bizet. 1. Guide Prat.g1. 1895. 
Tree moderately vigorous, very fertile. Fruit large; good; Mar. to June. 
