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slightly visible; flesh whitish, fine, melting or semi-melting, very juicy, saccharine, vinous, 
having a very pleasant flavor; first; Sept. 
Madame Verté. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:385, fig. 1869. 
Origin uncertain, but it was first sent out by M. de Jonghe, Brussels, Bel., and then 
extensively propagated in France. Fruit medium, globular-ovate, irregular, yellowish- 
green, much washed with brown-fawn and speckled with small ashen-gray dots; flesh yellow- 
ish, semi-fine, semi-melting, granular at center; juice abundant, sugary, acidulous, with a 
somewhat savory perfume and after taste of anis; second, variable; from end of Nov. to 
Jan. 
Madame Von Siebold. 1. Guide Prat. 115. 1876. 2. Cornell Sta. Bul. 332:485. 1913. 
Japan. The following description was made on the grounds of Messrs. Simon-Louis 
Bros., Metz, Lorraine; ‘‘ Madame Von Siebold.— Fruit very large, rounded, a little narrow 
toward the cavity, where it is angular; truncated at the base and indented at the circum- 
ference . . . Skin rather smooth, of a pretty brown color, dotted with large gray 
specks which are very regular and very apparent. Flesh white, slightly yellowish, medium 
fine, crisp, juicy, sweet, perfumed like quinces, almost eatable raw. The most beautiful 
of the Japanese — Simon-Louis Fréres.”’ 
Madeleine d’Angers. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:386, fig. 1869. 
From the environs of Segré or of Beaupreau, districts in the same department (Maine), 
where it has been generally grown for 150 years. Fruit medium and sometimes below, 
conic and very elongated, somewhat contorted at the upper end, grass-green passing to 
greenish-yellow on the part near the stalk and dotted with gray-russet; flesh white, semi- 
fine or coarse, rather melting, watery and gritty; juice abundant, sugary, more or less acid, 
and only slightly perfumed; third; end of July. 
Mademoiselle Blanche Sannier. 1. Guide Prat. 96. 1895. 
A French variety. Fruit large, oblong-pyriform; flesh fine, melting, perfumed, juicy; 
Oct. 
Mademoiselle Marguerite Gaujard. 1. Guide Prat. 104. 1895. 
Obtained by M. Gaujard at Ghent, Fr.; described as a new variety in 1895. Fruit 
oblong, rather gourd-shaped in form, covered with gray-russet and slightly blushed on the 
exposed side; flesh melting, of a sprightly taste, perfumed; Jan. to Mar. 
Mademoiselle Solange. 1. Jour. Hort. N.S.15:120. 1888. 
Described by the Fruit Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society of England in 
1887 as a new variety. Fruit small, nearly globular, green, juicy and of good flavor. 
Magherman. 1. Guide Prat. 110. 1876. 
Tree very vigorous, beautiful in aspect and extremely fertile. Fruit large or very 
large, long-pyriform, regular in outline, yellow streaked with carmine; flesh yellowish, 
excessively melting and very juicy, sugary and having an exquisite perfume; first; second 
half of Sept. 
Magnate. 1. Hogg Fruit Man. 610. 1884. 2. Bunyard Handb. Hardy Fr. 186. 1920, 
A seedling raised by Rivers of Sawbridgeworth, Eng., from Louise Bonne de Jersey. 
prior to 1880. Fruit large, obtuse-pyriform, even and symmetrical in outline, yellow covered 
with rather dark brown-russet, thickly strewed with large russet freckles, blushed and 
