486 THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 
mon-russet on a yellow ground, with a blush; flesh yellowish, coarse, melting, juicy without 
much flavor; Oct. 
One-third. 1. Iowa Hort. Soc. Rpt. 219. 18709. 
Reported to be growing on the Iowa State College Farm and to have been called One- 
third, from the fact that it is the third generation from seeds originally sown in Wisconsin. 
Oneida. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 823. 1869. 
Originated in western New York. Fruit medium or below, globular, pale yellow, 
partially netted and patched with light russet; flesh white, coarse, juicy, semi-melting, 
agreeable; good; Sept. 
Onion. 1. Mawe-Abercrombie Univ. Gard. Bot. 1778. 
La Grosse Oignonetie. 2. Brookshaw Pomona 2:P\. LIII. 1817. 
The Onion, or La Grosse Oignonette, is a rare pear and is distinct from Oignonet de 
Provence. Fruit medium, globular, brown-skinned; flesh sweet, well flavored but rather 
dry, and when too ripe becomes pithy; Sept. 
Orange. 1. Mass. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 44. 1866. 
A seedling fruited by S. A. Shurtleff of Brookline, Mass., in 1862. Fruit diameter 
3% inches, globular; skin tough and bright yellow, with dots; flesh fine-grained, keeps well 
and is a good cooking pear; end of Dec. 
Orange-Bergamot. 1. Bradley Gard. 199. 1739. 2. Brookshaw Horticultural Reposi- 
tory 1:63, Pl. 31. 1823. 3. Hogg Fruit Man. 625. 1884. 
Of English origin. Tree hardy, free bearer, succeeding on either pear or quince 
stock. Fruit small, globular-turbinate; skin smooth, pale green changing to yellow or yellow- 
green at maturity, blushed with dull red on the side next the sun, strewed with whitish-gray 
dots; flesh white, semi-melting, juicy, with a sweet, orange flavor; dessert pear; early Sept. 
Orange d’Hiver. 1. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:144, Pl. XIX, fig. 4. 1768. 2. Downing 
Fr. Trees Am. 824. 1869. 
Winter Pomeranzenbirne. 3. Christ Handb. 507. 1817. 
Winter Orange. 4. Lindley Guide Orch. Gard. 390. 1831. 
This is a very old pear, probably of French origin. Tree rather vigorous, said to be 
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a late but heavy bearer. Fruit medium, round, somewhat flattened at base and apex, 
bright yellow, covered all over with numerous brown dots and lined with russet; stem 
medium long, stout, inserted in a small, oblique cavity; calyx small, open, set in a small, 
round, very shallow depression; flesh white, rather gritty, firm, crisp, very juicy, with a 
pleasant, slightly musky, aromatic flavor; a good cooking pear and a fair dessert pear; 
Feb. to Apr. 
Orange Mandarine. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:483, fig. 1869. 2. Hogg Fruit Man. 625. 
1884. 
Raised from seed by Leroy at Angers, Fr., and fruited first in 1863. Fruit below 
medium and sometimes a little larger, globular, rather regular in outline, more or less mam- 
millate at the summit, pale yellow, passing to clear russet on the cheek exposed to the sun, 
and covered with minute brown dots; flesh white, very fine and very melting, slightly gritty 
at the center; juice abundant, saccharine, acidulous, endowed with an exquisite perfume; 
first; Oct. 
