THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 483 
Notaire Lepin. 1. Rev. Hort. 449. 1880. 
Notaire Lepin was obtained by M. Rollet, a horticulturist at Villefranche, Rhdéne, 
Fr., about 1860 and was placed on the market in 1879. Fruit large or very large, variable 
in size, obtuse-pyramidal but variable, skin fine, somewhat rough to the touch, yellow, 
dotted with russet, marbled with fawn, flesh white, granular around the core, fine, melting, 
very juicy, saccharine, slightly but agreeably perfumed; its quality very variable, rather 
good, and rarely very good; Jan. to Apr. 
Notaire Minot. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:465, fig. 1869. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 821. 
1869. 
A posthumous gain of Van Mons of only very moderate merit. It fruited in nurseries 
at Geest-Saint-Rémy, Jodoigne, Bel., in 1844. Fruit medium, rather variable in form, 
but usually irregular ovate-globular or very obtuse-turbinate and ventriculous; skin thick 
and rather rough, grass-green, dotted all over with fawn and blushed with dark red on the 
side of the sun; flesh yellowish, semi-fine and semi-melting, very gritty around the core; 
juice insufficient, saccharine, aromatic, having a disagreeable astringency; third; Oct. 
Nouveau Doyenné d’Hiver. 1. Mas Pom. Gen. 1:9, fig. 5. 1872. 
Stated by Diel to have been a gain of Van Mons. Fruit medium, spherical or spherical- 
conic, slightly depressed at the two poles, even in its outline; skin thick and firm, of a 
very clear green, sprinkled with small brown dots regularly placed in a characteristic manner; 
at maturity the basic green passes to pale yellow and the side next the sun becomes a little 
golden; flesh white, rather fine, compact, breaking or semi-breaking; juice deficient, saccha- 
rine but wanting in perfume; not very desirable; end of winter. 
Nouveau Poiteau. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:466, fig. 1869. 2. Bunyard Handb. Hardy 
Fr. 190. 1920. 
According to Leroy this was a seedling of Van Mons raised in his nursery at Louvain 
from a bed made in 1827. Fruit large and sometimes enormous, oblong or irregular-ovate, 
always much bossed, swelled around the middle and often more so on one side than on the 
other, grass-green, covered with numerous fawn dots, and with some squamose patches of 
brown-russet on the side of the sun; flesh white, greenish near the core, very fine, melting, 
juicy, saccharine, acidulous, savory; first; Oct. 
Nouvelle Aglaé. 1. Guide Prat. 101. 1876. 
Obtained by M. Grégoire, Jodoigne, Brabant. Fruit medium, long-obtuse-oval, dark 
yellow touched with fawn; flesh fine, juicy; first; end of autumn. 
Nouvelle Fulvie. 1. Ann. Pom. Belge 4:59, fig. 1857. 2. Bunyard Handb. Hardy Fr. 
190. 1920. 
Belle de Jarnac. 3. Leroy Dict. Pom. 1:203, fig. 1867. 
A gain of M. Grégoire, Jodoigne, Bel. First reported in 1854. Fruit large or very 
large, pyramidal-pyriform, strongly bossed, lemon-yellow when ripe, colored with vivid 
red on the side exposed to the sun, marked and dotted with russet; flesh yellowish-white, 
very fine, melting, buttery; juice very abundant, sugary, having an exquisite perfume; 
good; Nov. to Feb. 
Nussbirne. 1. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 2:162. 1856. 
Schwarben, Thuringer Wald, Ger., 1800. Fruit small, globular-turbinate, green, 
thick skin; flesh firm, breaking, vinous and acidulous; first for household; end of Aug. 
