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at its lower part and generally more enlarged on one side than on the other; skin fine, 
golden-yellow, sprinkled with large gray dots and some russet markings, and more or less 
stained with clear brown around the stem; flesh white, semi-fine, melting, gritty at the center; 
juice deficient; rather savory, but slightly acerb; second; mid-Aug. 
Madame Delmotte. 1. Mass. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 139. 1871. 2. Mas Pom. Gen. 3:73, 
fig. 133. 1878. 
Obtained by M. Grégoire, Jodoigne, Bel. Fruit medium, obtuse-pyriform, dull green 
dotted with greenish-gray; flesh white, or slightly tinted with yellow, very fine, buttery, 
melting, full of sweet juice, delicately perfumed. 
Madame Ducar. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:376, fig. 1869. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 
808. 1869. 
This was-a posthumous gain of Major Espéren, Mechlin, Bel., dating from 1846. 
Fruit medium, globular-ovate, regular in form, slightly undulating around the summit; 
skin fine, rather dull yellow, finely dotted and streaked with fawn; flesh white, coarse, semi- 
melting, very gritty; juice sufficient, sugary, sweet, almost without perfume but having a 
certain delicacy of taste; second; end of Aug. 
Madame Duparc. 1. Mas Pom. Gen. 4:1409, fig. 267. 1879. 
Gained by M. Bessard-Duparc, near Savenay, Fr., and fruited first about 184s. Fruit 
medium, ovate-obtuse-pyriform, regular in contour; skin rather thick, lively green, speckled 
with indistinct darker green spots, the green becoming brighter at maturity, a rather dense 
tusset sometimes covering the calyx and the summit; flesh white, coarse, semi-buttery, 
gritty around the core; juice rather deficient, sugary and only slightly scented; indifferent; 
Oct. and Nov. 
Madame Durieux. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:377, fig. 1869. 2. Hogg Fruit Man. 609. 
1884. 
A variety which came from the seed beds of Van Mons but did not fruit till 1845. 
Fruit medium, globular, rather Bergamot-shaped, grayish or greenish-yellow, covered 
with patches of thin cinnamon-colored russet, yellowish, semi-fine, very melting, buttery, 
juicy, sugary, vinous, aromatic; first; Oct. 
Madame Elisa. 1. Ann. Pom. Belge 4:31, fig. 1856. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 808, 
fig. 1869. 
Raised in the seed beds of Van Mons and first bore fruit in 1848. Fruit large, obtuse- 
pyriform, often rather irregular in its upper half, greenish-yellow passing to lemon-yellow 
at maturity, with numerous small blackish-gray dots; flesh white, a little yellow next the 
skin, fine, melting, free from grit, full of rich saccharine juice, vinous; first; Sept. to 
Nov. 
Madame Flisa Dumas. 1. Mas Pom. Gen. 5:10, fig. 298. 1880. 
A seedling raised by M. Bonnefoy, near Lyons, Fr. He disseminated itin 1857. Fruit 
medium, conic-ovate, regular in contour; skin thick, at first whitish-green speckled with 
grayish-black dots, changing to pale yellow, and more golden on the side next the sun; 
sometimes stains of rough brown-russet are dispersed over its surface; flesh white, only 
slightly firm without being breaking, rather gritty around the center, full of sugary juice, 
vinous and refreshing; handsome and of good quality; Aug. 
