THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 475 
Moon. 1. Ragan Nom. Pear, B. P.I. Bul. 126:183. 1908. 
Cultivated by Silas Wharton in 1824. Its synonyms, Moon’s Pound, and Pound, 
Moon's, are significant of its size. Fruit described by Ragan as medium sized, yellow; 
flesh melting, juicy; good; late. 
Moorcroft. 1. Hogg Fruit Man. 619. 1884. 
Often called in England the Malvern pear, being much grown about that place; esteemed 
for perry. Fruit small, globular, even and regular in outline, greenish-yellow on the shaded 
side, and with a brownish tinge on the side next the sun, strewed all over with large ashy 
gray freckles of russet; flesh breaking. 
Moorfowl Egg. 1. Lindley Guide Orch. Gard. 361. 1831. 
Muirfowl Egg. 2. Hogg Fruit Man. 619. 1884. 
An old Scotch dessert pear partaking somewhat of the character of Swan Egg. Fruit 
below medium, globular, dull green changing to yellow-green, mottled with red next the 
sun, and thickly strewed with pale brown-russety dots; flesh yellowish, semi-buttery, 
tender, sweet and with a slight perfume; Oct. 
Morel. 1. Mag. Hort. 21:151. 1855. 2. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:434, fig. 1869. 
Propagated by Alexandre Bivort, successor of Van Mons, and can be traced earlier 
than 1843. Fruit below medium or small, ovate, sensibly hexagonal, flattened at either 
extremity, and one side usually more enlarged than the other, yellowish-green, dotted and 
marbled with russet; flesh yellowish, fine, breaking, rather granular at the center; juice 
abundant, wanting in sweetness, insipid and of a very unpleasant astringency; second, 
but good only for cooking; Apr. 
Morgan. 1. Horticulturist 14:250, fig. 1859. 2. Mag. Hort. 25:541. 1859. 
Originated on the farm of a Mr. Morgan in New Hanover County, North Carolina. 
Fruit large, oblate varying to obtuse-pyriform, greenish-yellow, speckled with gray-russet 
intermingled with some tracery of the same; flesh white, a little gritty, juicy, sweet, slightly 
vinous; very good, nearly best; Oct. 
Morley. 1. Parkinson Par. Ter. 593. 1629. 
Mentioned in Parkinson’s list of orchard pears as a “‘ very good peare, like in forme 
and colour unto the Windsor but somewhat grayer.”’ 
Morosovskaja. 1. Ia. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 61. 1880. 
Mentioned in a paper read by Mr. J. L. Budd before the Horticultural Society of Iowa 
in 1880. It is a Russian variety, having gritty, thorn-like wood. 
Moskovka. 1. Ragan Nom. Pear, B. P.I. Bul. 126:184. 1908. 
A Russian variety said to be largely grown for cooking. Fruit small, pyriform, juicy 
early season. 
Mostbirne. 1. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 2:173. 1856. 
Nassau, Ger., 1802. Fruit medium, pyriform, sides rather unequal, whitish-yellow skin 
changing to lemon-yellow, without any blush, dotted indistinctly, russeted; flesh yellow, 
breaking, coarse-grained, juicy, aromatic, sweet; third for dessert, but first for cooking and 
perry; Sept. and Oct. 
Moyamensing. 1. Mag. Hort. 13:274. 1847. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 818. 1869. 
Supposed to be a native. The original tree stood in 1847 in the:garden of J. B. Smith 
