458 THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 
Madame Ernest Baltet. 1. Baltet Trait. Cult. Fr. 317, fig. 208. 1908. 
French. Fruit large, obtuse-pyriform, reddish-brown-yellow, with light russet; flesh 
very fine, melting, very juicy, sugary, sprightly; very good; Sept. and Oct. 
Madame Favre. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:379, fig. 1869. 
Obtained by M. Favre, president of the section of Arboriculture of the Agricultural 
Society of Shalon-sur-Marne, Fr.; it first fruited in 1861. Fruit above medium and often 
larger, globular surface unequal and bossed; skin rough, greenish-yellow, dotted, streaked, 
marbled, stained with gray-russet and vermilioned on the cheek next the sun; flesh white, 
very fine, melting; juice abundant, very sugary, vinous, deliciously perfumed; first; end of 
Aug. 
Madame Flon. 1. Guide Prat. 99. 1876. 
Published by M. Flon in 1868. Fruit medium, globular, yellow and gray-russet; 
flesh very melting and juicy, saccharine, sprightly, perfumed; first; end of Dec. 
Madame Grégoire. 1. Ann. Pom. Belge 8:97, fig. 1860. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 809. 
1869. 
Obtained in 1860 by M. Grégoire, Jodoigne, Bel., and was published the same year. 
Fruit medium to large, long-oval, obtuse; skin greasy, clear green becoming yellow at 
maturity, marked with gray-russet, especially around the stem, and some dots of 
whitish-gray; flesh yellowish-white, fine, melting, very juicy, sugary, vinous, perfumed 
and acidulous; good or very good; Dec. and Jan. 
Madame Henri Desportes. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:380, fig. 1869. 2. Hogg Fruit Man. 
609. 1884. 
Raised by Leroy, Angers, Fr.; first fruited in 1863. Fruit large, turbinate, uneven in 
outline, yellow, covered with russety dots and patches; flesh yellowish-white, very fine and 
very melting, seldom gritty, very juicy, saccharine, acidulous, with a decided aroma and 
delicious flavor; excellent; first; Oct. 
Madame Loriol de Barny. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:381, fig. 1869. 2. Mass. Hori. Soc. 
Rpt. 92. 1872. 
Raised by Leroy in 1866 at his nurseries at Angers, Fr., from seed of Bartlett. Fruit 
large, ovate and nearly cylindrical, always rather irregular, clear yellow clouded with green, 
more or less streaked and mottled with russet, covered with large, grayish-brown or greenish 
dots and often stained with fawn around the calyx and stem; flesh yellowish-white, 
excessively melting and fine, juicy, rarely gritty, sugary, perfumed, with a tart flavor 
and a delicate and agreeable after-taste of musk; first; Nov. 
Madame Lyé-Baltet. 1. Cat. Cong. Pom. France 301, fig. 1906. 2. Bunyard Handb. 
Hardy Fr. 185. 1920. 
Obtained by Ernest Baltet, nurseryman at Troyes, Fr.; placed on the market in 1877. 
Fruit medium or rather large, turbinate, obtuse, swelled, truncated at base; skin fine, 
green or yellow-green all over, dotted with russet and touched with fawn; flesh white, 
fine, melting, juicy, sugary and perfumed; very good; Dec. and Jan. 
Madame de Madre. 1. Guide Prat. 95. 1895. 2. Gard. Chron. 3rd Ser. 30:271. 1901. 
Sent out by Daras de Naghin, Antwerp, Bel., who raised it from Délices d’Hardenpont, 
in 1881. Fruit medium, pyriform, rather elongated, contracted at the lower end terminat- 
