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green becoming partially yellow at maturity, marked and dotted with gray-russet; flesh 
white, melting, buttery, juicy, sugary and highly aromatic; Nov. 
Jean-Baptiste Dediest. 1. Mas Pom. Gen. 6:23, fig. 396. 1880. 
Obtained by M. Xavier Grégoire, Jodoigne, Brabant; first reported in 1839. Fruit 
medium, globular; flesh fine, juicy, sugary; good; spring until July. 
Jean Cottineau. 1. Guide Prat.97. 1876. 2. Ibid. 68. 1895. 
On trial in the orchards of Messrs. Simon-Louis, Metz, Lorraine, in 1876 and rated by 
them in 1895 as a third-class summer pear. Fruit medium, globular, yellowish-green, 
spotted with red on the sun-exposed side; flesh white, sugary; good; mid-Aug. 
Jean Laurent. 1. Guide Prat.97. 1876. 2. Ibid. 94. 1895. 
On trial with Messrs. Simon-Louis at Metz in 1895. Tree of remarkable fertility; 
suitable for large orchards. Fruit small or medium; flesh breaking; first for culinary pur- 
poses; Dec. to June. 
Jean Sano. 1. Guide Prat. 94. 1895. 
Sent out by M. Daras de Naghin, Antwerp, Bel., and on trial in the orchards of Messrs. 
Simon-Louis, Metz, Lorraine, in 1895. Fruit medium or rather large; flesh semi-fine, 
very sugary and aromatic; Nov. and Dec. 
Jean de Witte. 1. Mag. Hort. '7:286. 1841. 2. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:307, fig. 1869. 
Passe Colmar Frangois. 3. Ann. Pom. Belge 8:7, fig. 1860. 
Raised at Brussels early in the nineteenth century by M. Witzthumb, director of the 
Botanical Garden. Fruit below but sometimes up to medium, globular or turbinate, 
irregular, surface bossed and undulated, greenish, dotted and marbled with a more or less 
gray-russet; flesh white, semi-fine, melting, extremely juicy, sugary, perfumed, with a 
buttery flavor, quite delicious; first; Dec. 
Jeanne. 1. Guide Prai.g4. 1895. 
On trial with Messrs. Simon-Louis, Metz, Lorraine, in 1895, having been received by 
them from M. Daras de Naghin, Antwerp, Bel. Fruit large or very large, oblong-obovate; 
flesh semi-melting, nearly breaking, juicy, sugary and aromatic; Nov. 
Jeanne d’Arc. 1. Rev. Hort. 518, fig. 1904. 
Obtained by A. Sannier, Rouen, Fr., from a seedling of Beurré Diel fertilized with the 
Doyenné du Comice. Placed in commerce in 1893, and recommended by the Pomological 
Society of France ten years later. Fruit large, obtuse, rather of the aspect of the Duchesse 
d’Angouléme; skin slightly rough, pale lemon-yellow, tinted with rose on the side exposed 
to the sun, speckled with rose, some marks of fawn color; flesh white, granular about the 
core, fine, melting, very juicy, saccharine, acidulous, agreeable, only slightly perfumed; 
good; Oct. and Nov. 
Jefferson. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 791. 1869. 2. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 119. 1873. 
In a Report from Georgia to the American Pomological Society in 1873, P. Barry 
wrote of a Jefferson pear as a native of Alabama and an early summer fruit. Downing 
gives the following description of a pear of the same name originating in Mississippi. Fruit 
large, roundish-obtuse-pyriform, straw-color, shaded with red in the sun, and dotted with 
small green dots; flesh white, not juicy, sweet, coarse, decays quickly at core, not highly 
flavored; Aug. 
