THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 377 
Rousselet Enfant Prodigue. 3. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 846. 18609. 
Verschwenderin. 4. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 293. 1889. 
A Van Mons seedling of about 1830. Fruit medium to large, ovate but variable, 
greenish-yellow, largely obscured with cinnamon-colored russet, more or less carmined 
on the side of the sun; flesh greenish-white, dense, melting, juicy, sugary, aromatic, 
acidulous, astringent; second; Sept. 
Epine @Eté. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:138, fig. 1869. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 758. 1869. 
An old pear grown in the gardens of the Monastery of Chartreux, Paris, and stated 
in the catalog of that institution, of 1736, to be identical with the pear Bugiarda of Italy. 
This Leroy has shown to be an error, the Bugiarda being the pear known in France as 
Trompeur. Le Lectier appears to have grown it in 1628 in his famous gardens at Orléans, 
though under the name of Poire d’Espine. Fruit above medium, pyriform, more or less 
obtuse, bright green, finely dotted with gray-russet and lightly colored with tender rose 
on the side of the sun; flesh yellowish, fine, melting, juicy, sugary and musky; a moderately 
good autumn pear; Sept. 
Epine d’Ete Rouge. 1. Guide Prat. 94, 270. 1876. 
Rother Sommerdorn. 2. Liegel Syst. Anlett. 108. 1825. 
French, 1805. Fruit medium, ovate, slightly bossed, light grass-green turning to 
yellow-green, dark blush, dotted; flesh finely-grained; juice somewhat deficient, aromatic; 
good for the table, kitchen and market; Sept. 
Epine d’Hiver. 1. Langley Pomona 132. 1729. 2. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:184, 
Pl. XLIV, fig. 3. 1768. 
Winter Thorn. 3. Bradley Gard. 199. 1739. 4. Lindley Guide Orch.Gard. 410. 1831. 
A very old French pear, reported asearlyas 1675. Tree healthy, although not a strong 
grower, and bears well. Fruit medium to above, roundish-obovate, smooth, green becoming 
yellowish and irregularly covered with grayish-brown dots; stem rather long, fleshy at 
base, inserted without depression; calyx small, open, set in a rather shallow basin; flesh 
whitish, melting, tender, buttery, with a sweet and agreeable musky flavor; a dessert pear; 
Nov. to Jan. 
Epine de Jernages. 1. Guide Prat.o4. 1876. 
Fruit medium; first; Mar. 
Epine du Mas. 1. Pom. France 1:No. 31, Pl. 31. 1863. 2. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:412, fig. 
1869. 
Belle Epine Dumas. 3. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 668. 1869. 
Dumas. 4. Rural N. Y. 453480, figs. 292, 293. 1886. 
A wilding found about 1760 by a M. Chemison in the forest of Rochechouart near 
Mas, Department of Haute-Vienne, Fr. Fruit medium, obtuse-pyriform, lively yellow or 
lemon-yellow, finely dotted with brown and washed with carmine on the sun-exposed cheek; 
flesh white, fine, tender, melting, sweet, gritty at center, juicy, acid, musky; good; Nov. 
and Dec. 
Epine Royale. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 758. 1860. 
Of French origin. Fruit medium, pyriform, yellowish, blushed with bright red on the 
side next the sun; flesh fine, melting, juicy, sweet, vinous; Oct. 
