THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 489 
obtuse-pyriform, dark green, shaded with dull red in the sun and thickly sprinkled with 
green and light dots; flesh tender, delicious and finely colored; one of the finest cooking pears 
in its season; Oct. to Dec. 
Owener Birne. 1. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 2:10. 1856. 
Wiurttemberg, 1830. Fruit globular-turbinate, greenish-yellow, with rather dark blush, 
russeted all over; flesh yellowish-white, astringent, juicy, breaking, aromatic, first for 
household use and the making of perry; end of Sept. 
Ozark. 1. U.S. D. A. Pom. Rpt. 38. 1895. 
Originated about 1845 from seed taken by a Mr. Rooks from Kentucky to Polk County, 
Missouri. Fruit large, oblate, greenish-yellow, with a few russet veinings and patches, 
dots numerous, minute, russet; stem medium long, in a large, deep basin; calyx large, 
open; flesh white, with yellow veins, buttery, granular, mild subacid; good; Aug. 
Paddock. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 530. 1857. 2. Ibid. 826. 1869. 
Sent out by Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington, Vt. Fruit rather below medium, oblong- 
ovate-pyriform, light yellow, sometimes with a faint blush; flesh fine-grained, melting, 
sweet, but not very highly flavored; good; end of July. 
Pailleau. 1. Mag. Hort. 8:58. 1842. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 826. 18609. 
Attributed to Van Mons, Belgium. Fruit large, oblong, greenish-yellow, rough, with 
brown and green dots and patches of russet; flesh juicy, sweet, rich, good, but rather coarse- 
grained; excellent quality; early Sept. 
Pain-et-Vin. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:494, fig. 1869. 
Cultivated in Normandy early in the nineteenth century under the two names of 
Pain-et-Vin and Chéne-Vert or Green-Oak. Fruit medium, ovate, rather long and swelled; 
skin thin, rough, dark yellow ground covered with bronze, freely stained and dotted with 
gray and reddened on the side of the sun; flesh yellowish-white, semi-fine, very firm, 
although semi-melting, rather gritty at core, very juicy, saccharine, acid, very vinous, 
with a particularly pleasant flavor; second; about mid-Sept. to beginning of Oct. 
Palmischbirne. 1. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 2:171. 1856. 2. Léschnig Mostbirnen 
190, fig. 1913. 
A perry pear grown in Germany and Upper Austria and known in different localities 
by various names. It was published in Germany in 1823. Fruit small, turbinate, regular 
in contour, greenish-yellow turning to light yellow, often with a dark blush, covered all over 
with large gray spots; flesh whitish, coarse-grained, very juicy, acidulous and saccharine, 
aromatic; third for the table, but first for perry; Sept. 
Paradiesbirne. 1. Christ Handb. 525. 1817. 2. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 2:182. 1856. 
Thuringia, Ger., 1797. Fruit small to medium, conic, yellow-green changing to golden 
yellow, slightly blushed, and dotted with brown, thin skin; flesh yellowish-white, very sweet, 
juicy; second for dessert, first for household; end of Oct. 
Pardee. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 530. 1857. 
Raised by S. D. Pardee, New Haven, Conn. Fruit small, globular, greenish-yellow, 
much covered with russet; flesh coarse, granular, buttery, juicy, melting, with a high vinous 
flavor, strongly perfumed; Oct. 
