THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 473 
Ministre Bara. 1. Ga. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 49. 1892. 2. Guide Prat. 96. 1895. 
A gain of Grégoire, Jodoigne, Bel. It was exhibited by P. J. Berckmans of Augusta, 
Georgia, before the Georgia State Horticultural Society in 1892 and 1893. 
Ministre Pirmez. 1. Guide Prat. 111. 1876. 
Published by Grégoire, Jodoigne, Bel. Fruit medium to large; flesh melting; first; 
Jan. and Feb. 
Ministre Viger. 1. Rev. Hort. 113. got. 
Raised by Messrs. Baltet of Troyes, Fr., from seed of the Pierre Tourasse. It was much 
noticed at the International Exhibition at Paris in 1900. Fruit large, turbinate, bossed, 
tender yellow clouded with ochre, washed with rosy gray and salmon on the side next the 
sun, with speckles of fawn; flesh fine, melting, very juicy, saccharine, with perfume notice- 
able on the skin, and flavor recalling that of the Duchesse d’Angouléme; mid-Dec. to mid- 
Jan. 
Minot Jean Marie. 1. Guide Prat. 100. 1876. 
A seedling of Grégoire, Jodoigne, Bel. Fruit large, pyriform, shortened, covered with 
russet on a yellow foundation; flesh yellowish, breaking, very juicy, sugary; first; Dec. to 
Feb. 
Missile d’Hiver. 1. Kenrick Am. Orch. 169. 1841. 
A foreign variety recommended by M. Dalbret and M. Jamin, well known pomologists. 
Fruit large, buttety, valuable according to M. Jamin; Nov. and Dec. 
Mission. 1. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 73. 1895. 
Originated at the old mission near Capistrano, California. Fruit medium, acutely 
pyriform, long, yellow, nearly covered with russet; flesh very fine and buttery; very mild 
or sweet; ripe in Sept. in southern California. 
Mr. Hill’s Pear. 1. Langley Pomona 132, Pl. LXIII, figs. 2, 4. 1729. 
Mentioned by Batty Langley, Twickenham, Eng., as bearing two crops in the year. 
Fruit rather small, obtuse-pyriform, usually distorted at the upper end, grows in clusters; 
in 1727 the first crop matured on Aug. 24, and the second crop on Oct. 1. 
Mitchell Russet. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 525. 1857. 2. Ibid. 817. 186g. 
Originated at Belleville, Ill. Fruit medium or small, obovate inclining to conic; skin 
rough, dark russet, thickly covered with gray dots; flesh juicy, melting, rich and highly 
perfumed, astringent: scarcely good; Oct. 
Mitschurin. 1. Can. Hort. 17:292. 18094. 
Probably Russian. Fruit very large; a good kitchen fruit; mid-season. 
Moccas. 1. Gard. Chron. 717. 1841. 2. Hogg Fruit Man. 617. 1884. 
Raised from seed by Thomas Andrew Knight, Downton Castle, Eng. Fruit medium, 
oval, uneven, and bossed in outline, lemon-colored, marked with patches and veins of thin 
pale brown-russet and strewed with russet dots; flesh yellowish, fine, melting, tender, full 
of rich vinous juice, musky in flavor; a delicious dessert pear. 
Mollet Guernsey Beurré. 1. Gard. Chron. 36, 85. 1842. 
Raised from seed by Charles Mollet of Guernsey, Channel Islands, who died in 1819. 
Fruit medium, obovate or somewhat pyramidal, with a remarkable fleshy extension of about 
4 inch at the insertion of the stalk, surface of the pear uneven, yellow, but much obscured 
