424 THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 
Ilinka. 1. Guide Prat. 94. 1895. 2. Gard. Chron. 3rd Ser. 36:368. 1904. 
This variety was published by Messrs Simon-Louis, of Metz, Lorraine, in 1895 as 
having been received by them from M. Niemetz, Winnitza, European Western Russia. 
Fruit medium to large, yellow, blushed with red on the side of the sun; medium quality; 
end of July. 
Impériale 4 Feuilles de Chéne. 1. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:228, Pl. LIV. 1768. 2. 
Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:287, fig. 1869. 
Oak-Leaved Imperial. 3. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 822. 1869. 
Impériale. 4. Hogg Fruit Man. 596. 1884. 
The origin of this pear is unknown but it was propagated by the Chartreux Monks 
of Paris in 1752. The tree is very vigorous and hardy and the leaves are singular in 
that, due to their peculiar indenting and puckering, they have the appearance of being 
sinuated like those of the oak. Fruit large, ovate, irregular, mammillate at the summit 
and always having one side larger than the other, dull yellow, covered with large reddish 
dots; flesh whitish, coarse, semi-breaking, juicy, gritty at center, sugary, almost without 
perfume; first for cooking, third for dessert; Feb. to May. 
Incommunicable. 1. Lindley Guide Orch. Gard. 376. 1831. 2. Mag. Hort.9:131. 1843. 
Flemish. In a list of pears grown in France and the Netherlands sent by Joseph Par- 
mentier to the London Horticultural Society in 1824. Fruit above medium, pyramidal 
and compressed toward the stalk, pale grass-green, thickly sprinkled with small gray- 
russety specks; stem short, stout, inclined; flesh yellowish-white, tinged near the core 
with a light shade of orange, a little gritty, melting, juicy, saccharine, with a slight musky 
perfume; latter half of Oct. 
Incomparable de Beuraing. 1. Guide Prat. 97. 1876. 
A French pear, presumably, published first by Grégoire and on trial in the trial- 
orchard of Messrs. Simon-Louis in 1876. Fruit very large; flesh fine, melting, juicy; of 
rather good quality; Nov. 
Indian Queen. 1. Mass. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 32. 1870. 2. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 66. 1875. 
Exhibited by Henry McLaughlin, Bangor, Me., before the Massachusetts Horti- 
cultural Society in 1870. Fruit rather large, long-pyriform, greenish-yellow with a brown 
cheek; flesh coarse, semi-melting, sweet, not rich, insipid; good for market only; Sept. 
Infortunée. 1. Mas. Pom. Gen. 3:69, fig. 131. 1878. 
Said to have been shown at the Exhibition of Gotha, Ger., in 1857. Fruit medium, 
turbinate-ovoid, ordinarily regular in contour; skin rather thick, clear green spotted with 
gray specks, round, small, numerous; at maturity the basic green becomes a dull pale 
yellow and golden on the side next the sun; flesh yellowish, semi-fine and melting, gritty 
round the core; juice sufficient and sweet; second; Aug. 
Ingénieur Wolters. 1. Guide Prat. 94. 1895. 
Sent out by M. Daras de Naghin, Antwerp, Bel. Fruit medium; flesh fine, very 
sugary, perfumed; first; Oct. 
Innominée. 1. Prince Pom. Man. 2:213. 1832. 2. Kenrick Am. Orch. 155. 1832. 
Raised by Van Mons who in 1831 sent cions of it to the Massachusetts Horticultural 
