THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 395 
Général Duvivier. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:217, fig. 1869. 
Beurré Duvivier. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 688. 1869. 
Raised from seed by M. Boisbunel, Rouen, Fr., in 1845. Fruit medium, long-conic, 
slightly obtuse, greenish-yellow, finely dotted and reticulated with russet, washed some- 
times with dark red on the side facing the sun; flesh whitish, fine, semi-melting, watery, 
not gritty; juice plentiful, sugary, acidulous, aromatic, delicate; first; Mar. 
General Kearney. 1. Mass. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 43. 1866. 
A seedling raised by S. A. Shurtleff, Brookline, Mass., which fruited in 1862. Fruit 
large, pyriform, greenish-yellow; flesh fine-grained, juicy, of rather high flavor; a good 
market pear; Sept. 
General Lamoriciére. 1. Mag. Hort. 18:296, fig. 22. 1852. 
According to Leroy this name is synonymous with Beurré Citron. Mas, however, 
thought that Beurré Citron was quite different. Fruit medium, obtuse-pyramidal, 
greenish-yellow, much reticulated and spotted and patched with russet; flesh greenish- 
white, fine, melting, tender, buttery; juice abundant, sugary, vinous and perfumed; first; 
Sept. to Nov. 
General Sherman. 1. Mass. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 43. 1866. 
A seedling of Dr. Shurtleffi’s submitted to the committee on fruits of the Horticultural 
Society of Massachusetts in 1866. “ Fruited in 1856. Diam. 23 in.; flesh white, melting, 
breaking and juicy; November to December, turbinate.”’ 
General Taylor. 1. Mag. Hort. 20:75, 269. 1854. 
Introduced by L. N. Rogers, Baltimore, Md., the original tree having been found by 
him at Franklin, Md., in 1854. Fruit medium or under, obovate-obtuse-pyriform, yellow 
but practically all cinnamon-russet; flesh yellowish-white, granular, buttery, melting, 
sweet, highly flavored; good to very good; Oct. and Nov. 
Général Thouvenin. 1. Guide Prat. 93. 1895. 
Origin unknown. Fruit medium, greenish; flesh rather yellow, fine, melting, juicy, 
very sugary and pleasantly perfumed; Dec. 
Général Totleben. 1. Aun. Pom. Belge 8:57, fig. 1860. 2. Bunyard Handb. Hardy Fr. 
177. 1920. 
M. Fontaine de Ghélin, Mons, Bel., raised this variety from a seed bed made in 1839. 
Fruit large or very large, pyriform, slightly contorted, one side often rather longer than 
the other, yellow, covered with dots and patches of russet; flesh tinted with salmon-rose, 
melting, juicy, with a rich, sugary and perfumed juice; excellent; Nov. to Jan. 
General Wauchope. 1. Gard. Chron. 3rd Ser. 30:474, fig. 144. 1901. 
Raised about 1888 by Charles Ross, gardener to Captain Carstairs, Welford Park, 
Newbury, Eng., from a cross of Nec Plus Meuris and Duchesse d’Angouléme. Fruit 
moderate size, obtuse-pyriform, very regular. yellowish-green, with fine spotting; flesh 
soft, free from grit, rich, sweet, somewhat of the flavor Nec Plus Meuris; Dec. 
Gensbirne. 1. Loschnig Mosibirnen 32, fig. 1913. 
An Austrian perry and wine pear. Fruit medium, long-pyriform, diminishing toward 
the stalk from the center; skin tolerably fine and shining yellow when ripe, densely and 
finely dotted with russet; flesh white, coarse-grained, juicy, subacid, astringent; Sept. 
