366 THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 
Doyenné Blanc Long. 1. Mas Le Verger 3:Pt. 1, 27, fig. 12. 1866-73. 2. Guide Prat. 
74. 1895. 
Origin unknown. Fruit medium, growing often in bunches, pyriform; skin thin, fine, 
bright green changing to brilliant yellow, golden on the side next the sun, with some bright 
red shading; flesh white, fine, melting, musky; first; Oct. 
Doyenné Boisnard. 1. Guide Prat. 91. 1895. 
Fruit rather large; first; Dec. 
Doyenné Boisselot. 1. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 205. 1889. 2. Garden 50:405. 1806. 
A little-known pear, large in size, some of the fruit weighing a pound, Bergamot in 
form, maturing about Christmas. 
Doyenné de Bordeaux. 1. Pom. Fr. 4:No. 150, Pl. 150. 1865. 2. Leroy Dict. Pom. 
2:57, fig. 1869. 
Origin unknown but cultivated in the environs of Bordeaux about 1820. Fruit large, 
globular, flattened at each end; skin thick, wrinkled and oily, golden-yellow sown with large 
dots of greenish-russet and marbled with the same, some orange-red on side next the sun; 
flesh very white, coarse, breaking, gritty at center; juice sufficient, sweet; third for dessert, 
first for compotes; Oct. to Dec. 
Doyenné Bouyron. 1. Guide Prat. gi. 1895. 
Distributed from Bordeaux, Fr. Fruit of the size, form and color of the Doyenné 
Gris; flesh fine, juicy, somewhat acid; Aug. 
Doyenné du Cercle. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 742. 1869. 2. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:59, 
fig. 1869. 
A seedling obtained by M. Boisbunel, a nurseryman at Rouen, Fr.; first published in 
1857. Fruit medium, turbinate-globular, varying to irregular-ovate, pale yellow covered 
with very fine gray dots and stained with fawn, often encrimsoned on the side next the sun; 
flesh whitish, very melting, scented; juice abundant, sweet, highly vinous, with a delicate, 
tartish flavor; first; Nov. 
Doyenné 4 Cing Pans. 1. Gard. Chron. 3rd Ser. 25:132. 1899. 
A cross effected in 1879 between Duchesse de Bordeaux and Easter Beurré by M. 
Herault. Fruit medium, rather globular, smooth, yellow, spotted and flecked with fawn; 
flesh fine, melting, juicy, sweet, with an aroma of Pelargoniums; Oct. and Nov. 
Doyenné Defays. 1. Mas Le Verger 3:Pt. 1, 73, fig. 35. 1866-73. 2. Leroy Dict. 
Pom. 2:62. 1869. 
Doyenné d’Effay. 3. McIntosh Bk. Gard. 22461. 1855. 
Obtained by M. Frangois-André Defays in the field of Saint Martin, near Angers, 
Fr. Fruit about medium, globular-obovate or Doyenné-shaped, bossed at the stalk end 
and generally larger and longer on one side, yellow, much covered with cinnamon-russet on 
the side next the sun; flesh tender, buttery, melting, very juicy, rich, sugary, vinous, with 
musky aroma; one of the best; Dec. 
Doyenné Downing. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:63, fig. 1869. 2. Hogg Fruit Man. 566. 
1884. 
A wilding found in a garden near Angers, Fr., by Frangois Desportes, the noted nursery- 
man, in 1851; it was named after A. J. Downing. Fruit medium, globular or ovate, mam- 
