THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 405 
Gros Rousselet d’Aout. 1. Ann. Pom. Belge 8:53, fig. 1860. 2. Downing Fr. Trees 
Am. 776. 1869. 
Rousselet d’Aout. 3. Pom. France 2:No. 83, Pl. 83. 1863. 
This was one of the first seedlings raised by Van Mons and is 201 in his catalog of 
1823. Fruit medium, pyriform, yellow washed with rose-red; flesh fine, melting, juicy, 
sugary, acidulous, with an agreeable perfume; a very good early fruit, ripening in August 
in Belgium. 
Gros Trouvé. 1. Guide Prat.95. 1876. 
This seedling was found by Gabriel Everard in a garden at Tournai, Bel. Fruit very 
large, fusiform, washed with red on the side next the sun; flesh breaking; first for kitchen 
purposes; keeps until the autumn of the year following. 
Grosse Eisbirne. 1. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 2:188. 1856. 
Reported in 1802. Fruit medium, onion-shaped; skin very smooth, shining and greasy, 
yellowish-green changing to light citron-yellow, often somewhat blushed; flesh coarse, 
solid and dry; third for the table, first for culinary use; Oct. 
Grosse Figue. 1. Guide Prat. 95, 278. 1876. 
Fruit large, obtuse-pyriform, yellow stained with brown; flesh semi-melting, juicy, 
well perfumed; first; Nov. 
Grosse gelbe Weinbirne. 1. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 2:49. 1856. 
Nassau, 1805s. Fruit below medium, globular, obtuse-conic, often turbinate, light 
lemon-yellow, dotted with fine brown spots, somewhat russeted; flesh extremely juicy, 
vinous, mingled sweet and sour; third for dessert, very good for the kitchen. 
Grosse-Herbst-Bergamotte. 1. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 2:169. 1856. 
Reported in middle Germany, 1806. Fruit medium, long-pyriform, round, yellowish- 
green, russeted, speckled with gray dots; flesh breaking, firm, white, juicy, sweet; third 
for dessert, good for household use; Oct. 
Grosse Landlbirne. 1. Léschnig Mostbiren 66, fig. 1913. 
A perry pear grown throughout Austria. Fruit medium, turbinate, otherwise short- 
pytiform; skin smooth, shining, yellow when ripe, blushed on the side opposed to the sun, 
sprinkled with numerous dots of cinnamon-brown; flesh coarse-grained, yellow-white, very 
juicy, sweet, astringent and without aroma; excellent; Oct. to Dec. 
Grosse Leutsbirne. 1. Léschnig Mosibirnen 112, fig. 1913. 
An Austrian perry pear. Fruit medium, long-pyriform, green covered all over with 
gray-russet; flesh very juicy, astringent, saccharine, with a sourish after-taste; good for 
transportation; Oct. 
Grosse-Louise. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:253, fig. 1869. 
A chance seedling found in a garden of the town of Tourcoing, Fr. Fruit large, conic- 
turbinate-obtuse, bossed and generally mammillate at summit, yellow, slightly greenish, 
dotted all over with russet and having some small brown stains; flesh white, very fine, dense, 
free from grit; juice very abundant, sugary, sweet, delicately perfumed; first; Sept. 
Grosse Mostputzer. 1. Loéschnig Mostbirnen 114, fig. 1913. 
A perry pear grown throughout Austria. Fruit medium but variable in size, globular, 
turbinate, otherwise pyriform; skin firm, leaf-green turning bright yellow at maturity, 
