484 THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 
Nypse. 1. Guide Prat. 101. 1876. 
A winter pear received by Messrs. Simon-Louis, Metz, Lorraine, from Italy, and on 
trial in that firm’s orchards in 1876. 
Oakley Park Bergamotte. 1. Mag. Hort. 13:152. 1847. 
Raised from seed by T. A. Knight, Downton Castle, Eng. former President of the 
London Horticultural Society. Fruit medium, globular-obovate, greenish-yellow, with 
russet; flesh buttery, melting; good; Oct. 
Ochsenherz. 1. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obsikunde 2:185. 1856. 
Ca@ur-de-Boeuf. 2. Guide Prat. 90, 258. 1876. 
South Germany, 1801. Fruit large, pyriform, crooked, light green turning to lemon- 
yellow, almost entirely blushed with dull light red, dotted with green; flesh pulpy and 
tender, not juicy, very sweet and musky; third for table, first for household and market; 
end of Oct. 
Ockletree. 1. Hist. Mass. Hori. Soc. 37. 1880. 
This was a seedling brought from Pittsburg, Pa., in 1804 and planted near Vincennes, 
Ind. In 1837 it produced 140 bushels of pears, the largest crop recorded from it. In 1855 
it measured ten and one-half feet in circumference at the smallest place below the limbs, 
seventy-five feet across the top, and sixty-five feet in height. In 1867 it was split down by 
a tornado, and seven or eight years later the trunk also died. It took its name from Mr. 
Ockletree its owner. The fruit was of inferior quality. 
Octave Lachambre. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:469, fig. 1869. 
M. Octave Lachambre, Loudon, Vienne, Fr., found this variety in the orchard of the 
Chateau of Guériniére about 1825. M. Lachambre propagated it and offered it to Leroy 
who placed it on the market in 1860. Fruit medium or less, globular-ovate, bossed, flat- 
tened at the top, and always smaller on one side than on the other, dull yellow, finely 
dotted and streaked with russet, slightly mottled with fawn on the cheek exposed to the sun 
and around the calyx and stalk; flesh whitish, fine, melting or semi-melting, rather granular 
around the core; juice extremely abundant, acidulous and saccharine, more or less aromatic 
but always full of flavor; first; May. 
Oesterreichische Muskatellerbirne. 1. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 2:24. 1856. 
Austria, 1851. Fruit medium, globular, medium ventriculous; skin thick, greenish- 
yellow, somewhat blushed with brown and without russet; flesh firm, somewhat gritty, very 
melting and juicy; first for dessert, household and market; Sept. 
CEuf de Woltmann. 1. Mas Le Verger 2:221, fig. 109. 1866-73. 
Of German origin. Fruit small to medium, exactly ovate, bright green, sprinkled with 
numerous dots, some gray and some dark green; at maturity the basic green changes to 
pale yellow the dots becoming less visible and on well-exposed fruits the side next the 
sun is slightly blushed with earthy-red on which are some dots of whitish-gray; flesh very 
white, semi-fine, semi-breaking, sugary, with a refreshing and agreeable perfume; good; 
end of July. 
Ogereau. 1. Mich. Sta. Bul. 177339. 1899. 
Believed to be European. Fruit obovate-oblong-pyriform, yellow blushed with red, 
some russet; flesh white, buttery, vinous, medium quality, for market; Oct. and Nov. 
