476 THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 
of Philadelphia. Fruit medium, variable in form, some globular, others obovate, uniform 
light yellow, with patches and dots of russet; flesh whitish, buttery, melting, coarse, sweet; 
with a rich, spicy and delicious flavor; good to best; Aug. and Sept. 
Mrs. Seden. 1. Garden 76:36, figs. 1912. 
A cross between Seckel and Bergamotte Espéren; exhibited by James Veitch and 
Sons, Chelsea, Eng., before the Royal Horticultural Society in January, 1912, and received 
an award of merit. Fruit small, round, yellow, toning to a bright crimson on the sunny 
side; flesh is free from the grittiness which sometimes characterizes the fruits of 
Bergamotte Espéren; the flavor is remarkably fine; Jan. 
Muddy Brook. 1. Mass. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 45. 1866. 
A seedling from S. A. Shurtleff of Brookline, Mass., which fruited in 1862. Fruit 
diameter 2} inches, short pyriform; skin dark green; flesh white, melting and juicy, with 
good flavor; great bearer and good market pear; Sept. 
Muir Everbearing. 1. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 135. 1920. 
Originated with Hal Muir, Bloomfield, Ky., about 1870. Reported as ‘“‘ delicious; 
August to November.” 
Mungo Park. 1. Dochnahl Puhr. Obstkunde 2:160. 1856. 2. Guide Prat. 100. 1876. 
A seedling of Van Mons named after the celebrated Scotch voyager. Fruit small, 
turbinate-pyriform or globular-ovate, very pale green sprinkled with fawn dots, very small, 
numerous, and feebly visible, the basic green passing at maturity to pale whitish-yellow 
and becoming a little golden on the side of the sun; flesh white, very fine, melting, free from 
grit, full of sugary juice, sprightly and agreeably perfumed; first; Oct. 
Munz Apothekerbirne. 1. Gard. Chron. 3rd Ser. 302370. 1891. 
Presumably German. A medium-sized pear, obovate, oblong, with a stalk rather more 
than an inch long, continuous with the fruit, yellowish; flesh white; of good flavor; Aug. 
Muscadine. 1. Mag. Hort. 1:364. 1835. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 818. 18609. 
The original tree is supposed to have grown on the farm of a Dr. Fowler near New- 
burgh, N. Y., and the pear was introduced to notice by Downing. Fruit medium, globular- 
obovate, regular in form, pale yellowish-green, thickly sprinkled with brown dots; flesh 
white, buttery, semi-melting, with an agreeable rich, musky flavor; good to very good, a 
valuable late summer variety; end of Aug. and beginning of Sept. 
Muscat Allemand d’Automne. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:437, fig. 1869. 2. Mathieu Nom. 
Pom. 256. 1889. 
Found in the Horticultural Society’s Garden at Angers, Fr., in 1833. Its origin is 
uncertain but the name indicates that it came from Germany. Fruit medium and sometimes 
below, rathc: variable in form, from long-pyriform, slightly obtuse and regular in contour, 
to irregular-ovate and strongly bossed, somber yellow, dotted with clear gray, extensively 
washed with russet, and vermilioned on the side exposed to the sun; flesh white, semi-fine, 
melting, rather granular, watery; juice abundant and saccharine, vinous, musky and 
almost always marred by too great an acidity; second; Oct. 
Muscat Fleuri @’Eté. 1. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 21121. 1768. 2. Leroy Dict. Pom. 
23441, fig. 1869. 
Known at Orléans at the end of the sixteenth century under the name Muscat a 
