426 THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 
Ives Bergamotte. 1. Field Pear Cult. 273. 1858. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 788. 1869. 
Originated by Dr. Eli Ives. Fruit medium or small, globular, greenish-yellow with 
some traces of russet; flesh rather coarse, buttery, melting, juicy, vinous; good; Sept. 
Ives Seedling. 1. Field Pear Cult. 273. 1858. 2. Elliott Fr. Book 392. 1859. 
Raised by Dr. Eli Ives. Fruit nearly medium, rather globular, greenish-yellow, 
shaded with crimson; flesh whitish, coarse and granular, melting, juicy, with a refreshing 
sugary flavor, perfumed; good; Sept. 
Ives Virgalieu. 1. Field Pear Cult. 273. 1858. 2. Elliott Fr. Book 392. 1850. 
Raised by Dr. Eli Ives. Fruit below medium, pyriform, greenish blushed with dull 
crimson; flesh whitish, granular, juicy, sweet, vinous, buttery and melting; good to very 
good; Oct. 
Ives Winter. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 575. 1857. 2. Ibid. 789. 1869. 
Raised by Dr. Eli Ives. Fruit medium, depressed-pyriform, yellowish, sprinkled 
with russet spots; flesh white, coarse, granular; cooking; Dec. 
Ives Yale. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 789. 1869. 
Raised by Dr. Eli Ives. Fruit medium, globular, mammillate at base of stem, dull 
greenish-yellow, blushed with brownish-crimson in the'sun; flesh greenish-white, moderately 
juicy; good; early Aug. 
Jablousky. 1. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 2:28. 1856. 
Originated at Wittenberg, Ger., in 1799. Fruit small, nearly round, symmetrical; 
skin smooth and polished, greenish-yellow turning to light waxy yellow, often slightly 
blushed; flesh semi-melting and rather coarse, having a musky aroma; second for the 
table, first for culinary uses, first for market; Sept. 
Jackson. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 512. 1857. 2. Elliott Fr. Book 392. 1850. 
Origin, New Hampshire. Fruit medium, obovate, short-pyriform, pale yellow, some- 
what russeted; flesh white and juicy, brisk, vinous; good to very good; Sept. 
Jackson Elizabeth. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 789. 1869. 
Originated with 8. 5. Jackson, Cincinnati, Ohio. Fruit medium, globular-obovate- 
pyriform, greenish-yellow, tinged with crimson on the sunny side and thickly dotted with 
russet; flesh whitish, juicy, melting, sweet, pleasant and slightly aromatic; good to very 
good; Sept. 
Jacqmain. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:292, fig. 1869. 
From Simon Bouvier, Jodoigne, Bel., about 1835. Fruit above medium, long-tur- 
binate, obtuse, swelled at middle circumference, smaller on one side than the other; skin 
rugose, thick, greenish, dotted with clear gray and sometimes vermilioned on the side 
exposed to the sun; flesh greenish-white, coarse, semi-breaking, gritty; juice sufficient, 
sugary without any pronounced perfume; third; Oct. 
Jacques Chamaret. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:2093, fig. 1869. 
From the last seed beds made at Laval, France, in 1837 or 1838 by Léon Leclerc. 
Fruit above medium, turbinate, slightly obtuse, mammillate at base, bossed at summit, 
clear yellow, dotted and stained with russet; flesh white, fine, semi-melting, watery, rather 
granular at center; juice abundant, sweet, very sugary and perfumed; first; Nov. 
