THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 415 
large or above medium, obtuse-pyramidal, smooth, olive-yellow, dotted with brown, striped 
and mottled with greenish russet; flesh yellowish-white, fine, semi-buttery, rather melting, 
rarely very gritty, juice plentiful, sweet, acid, aromatic and delicate; first; end of Aug. 
Henri Bouet. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:274, fig. 1869. 
Obtained in 1861 by Henri Bouet, a nurseryman at Fougereuse, Deux-Sévres, Fr., from 
Duchesse d’Angouléme fertilized by Jargonelle (French). Fruit large, turbinate-ovate, 
bossed, mammillate at crown and generally somewhat contorted, pale yellow, dotted and 
striated with fawn, spotted with greenish-russet around stalk; flesh very white and fine, 
melting, gritty around the core, extremely juicy, sugary, perfumed, acidulous and possessing 
a delicious flavor; first; Oct. and Nov. 
Henri de Bourbon. 1. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 232. 1889. 2. Ragan Nom. Pear, B. P. I. 
Bul. 126264. 1908. 
Published in Germany in 1881. In Experimental Orchard at Agassiz, B. C., 1900. 
Fruit medium, pyriform, green changing to yellow, some brown; flesh juicy, melting, sweet: 
good to very good; mid-season. 
Henri Capron. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:275, fig. 1869. 2. Hogg Fruit Man. 592. 1884. 
Stated by Baron Biedenfeld in 1854 to have issued from a seed bed of Van Mons. 
it was propagated by the Horticultural Society of Angers in 1848. Fruit medium, long- 
ovate-acute passing at the top into the stem; skin rough to the touch, gray-green, clouded 
with dark yellow and dotted with russet; flesh white, semi-fine, melting or semi-melting, 
inclined to decay before falling, very juicy, sugary, aromatic, often rather astringent; 
variable in quality; Sept. 
Henri Decaisne. 1. Guide Prat. 96. 1876. 2. Le Bon Jard. 362. 1882. 
On trial with Simon-Louis, Metz, Lorraine, in 1876. Fruit large, pyriform, greenish- 
yellow, handsomely washed with vermilion at maturity; flesh melting, and of agreeable 
flavor; first; Sept. and Oct. 3 
Henri Desportes. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:276, fig. 1869. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 
782. 1869. 
Raised by Leroy, Angers, Fr., it fruited first in 1862. Fruit large or below, turbinate- 
obtuse, ventriculous, strongly bossed, generally irregular and much less curved on one 
side than the other; skin thick, orange-yellow dotted with gray-russet, slightly vermilioned 
on the side next the sun; flesh white, fine, very melting; juice abundant, vinous, sugary; 
first; Aug. , 
Henri Grégoire. 1. Guide Prat. 96. 1876. 2. Ibid 93. 1895. 
On trial with Simon-Louis at Metz, Lorraine, in 1876, and in 1895 and was “ very 
much recommended’ by the firm in both of those years. Fruit medium; first; Nov. 
and Dec. 
Henri Ledocte. 1. Guide Prat. 96. 1876. 
One of M. Grégoire’s seedlings. Fruit medium size; flesh melting; first; Dec. and Jan. 
Henri Quatre. 1. Mag. Hort. 12:173, fig. 6. 1846. 2. Leroy Dict. Pom. 23277, fig. 
1869. 
Henry the Fourth. 3. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 782. 1869. 
On the authority of Diel it appears that this pear was originated by M. de Witzthumb 
