THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 485 
Ognon. 1. Guide Prat. 70. 1895. 
Sent out by M. Gilbert, Antwerp, Bel. Fruit small to medium, globular, irregular, 
green covered with russet; third class; Sept. 
Ognonnet. 1. Baltet Cult. Fr. 375. 1908. 
A cider pear used in France for the production of alcohol by distillation. 
Oignon. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:473, fig. 1869. 2. Bunyard Handb. Hardy Fr. 191. 
1920. 
This is a variety which Leroy found cultivated in the western Departments of France 
which he thought might be the same as the pear called by Le Lectier in 1628 Ozgnon d’ Eté 
de Bretagne. In England it is one of the most fertile pears grown. Fruit above medium, 
spherical, much flattened at both ends and often smaller on one side than on the other; 
skin thick and rough, gray-fawn, entirely covered with large grayish dots; flesh whitish, 
coarse, breaking, rather granular around the core; juice moderate in amount, sweet, 
saccharine, only slightly perfumed; second; end of Sept. 
Oignonet de Provence. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:474, fig. 1869. 
The origin of this pear is unknown, but it was propagated by M. Urbain Audibert, 
a nurseryman near Tarascon in the South of France. In 1812 M. Audibert sent it to M. 
Loiseleur-Deslongchamps who later published at Paris the Nouveau Duhamel. In this 
work it was described and illustrated in 1815. Fruit small, globular or ovate, decidedly 
rounded; skin fine and thin, grass-green, covered with small gray dots, generally speckled 
with fawn and washed with clear reddish-russet on the side of the sun; flesh greenish-white, 
fine or semi-fine, melting, gritty at the center; juice sufficient, saccharine, vinegary, with a 
rather agreeable taste of anis; second; end of July. 
Oken. 1. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 2:21. 1856. 2. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:475, fig. 1869. 
Winter Oken. 3. Hogg Fruit Man. 668. 1884. 
A seedling of Van Mons which fruited about 1826. Fruit medium, nearly globular 
or globular-ovate; skin fine, tender, pale green sprinkled with gray, extensively stained 
with fawn and slightly vermilioned on the side next the sun; flesh very white and fine, 
melting, watery, rather granular around the core; juice abundant, saccharine and having 
an exquisite aroma; first; mid-Oct. to end of Nov. 
Oldfield. 1. Prince Pom. Man. 2:210. 1832. 2. Hogg Fruit Man. 624. 1884. 
This is one of the most popular English perry pears, and took its name from the field 
where it was raised near Ledbury in Herefordshire. Fruit small, globular, even and regu- 
larly formed; skin uniform yellow, covered with minute dots, and with a patch of russet 
around the stalk; flesh yellowish, firm, breaking and very astringent. 
Olivenbirne. 1. Dochnahl Puhr. Obstkunde 2:188. 1856. 
German Rhineland, 1806. Fruit medium or small, globular-turbinate, dark olive- 
green turning to dull yellowish, dotted, and somewhat blushed with brownish-red; flesh white, 
fine, cinnamon-flavored, gritty toward center; third for dessert, first for household; Nov. 
Oliver Russet. 1. Mag. Hort. 10:212. 1844. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 579. 1857. 
Oliver Russet originated about 1832 and was shown before the Massachusetts Horti- 
cultural Society in the autumn of 1843 by G. W. Oliver, Lynn, Mass., in whose garden the 
parent tree was found growing. Fruit medium or below, obovate, obtuse; skin fair cinna~- 
