THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 499 
at Louvain, Bel. Fruit large, turbinate, more or less obtuse and elongated, much swelled 
at the middle, bossed and contorted at its summit, lemon-yellow, dotted and striped with 
fawn; flesh white, coarse or semi-fine, juicy and melting, rather gritty at the center, saccha- 
rine, sour, fairly well perfumed, sometimes disagreeably astringent; second; Sept. 
Pierre Corneille. 1. Guide Prat. 104. 1895. 
Pierre Corneille was obtained by M. Sannier, Rouen, Fr., from a seedling of Beurré 
Diel crossed with Doyenné du Comice; introduced about 1894. The fruit has the appear- 
ance of Duchesse d’Angouléme. Tree vigorous, fertile and pyramidal in form. Fruit 
large globular-obovate, greenish-yellow; flesh fine, melting, juicy, sugary, deliciously 
perfumed; Dec. and Jan. 
Pierre Curie. 1. Rev. Hort. 174. 1907. 
This is a seedling from Doyenné d’Alengon crossed with Beurré Henri Courcelle by 
M. Arséne Sannier, a nurseryman at Saint-Sever-Rouen, Fr., and placed on the market in 
1907. Fruit medium, oval, of the form of the Doyenné d’Alengon; skin gray; flesh extremely 
fine, with a very agreeable perfume; Jan. to Mar. 
Pierre Macé. 1. Guide Prat. 102. 1876. 
French, attributed to André Leroy. Tree vigorous and fertile. Fruit rather large, 
globular-turbinate, yellow dotted with fawn; flesh fine, melting, juicy, highly perfumed: 
first; second half of Sept. and early Oct. 
Pierre Paternotte. 1. Guide Prat.60. 1895. 
Raised from seed of the Marie-Louise by Pierre Paternotte, at Molenbeck-Saint-Jean, 
near Brussels, Bel. Tree vigorous and fertile. Fruit large, long, yellow, dotted and mar- 
bled with gray; flesh white, fine, melting, juicy; first; Oct. and Nov. 
Pierre Pépin. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:532, fig. 1860. 
A seedling raised by Leroy, Angers, Fr., and first reported in 1868. Fruit large, obtuse- 
pyriform, bossed, and swelled in its lower half, more or less hollowed at either end, lemon- 
yellow, slightly clouded with green and much speckled and spotted with brown; flesh 
whitish, fine, melting, some grit around the core; juice abundant, saccharine, vinous, and 
agreeably perfumed; first; mid-Sept. 
Pierre Tourasse. 1. Rev. Hort. 542. 1894. 
Exhibited in France by M. Tourasse, its originator, in 1894. Tree vigorous, upright, 
stocky, productive. Fruit of good size, broadly turbinate, spotted with brilliant fawn 
color upon a clear yellow ground, washed with orange and saffron; flesh fine, melting, very 
juicy, rich in sugar; last of Sept. and first of Oct. 
Pimpe. 1. Parkinson Par. Ter. 593. 1629. 
“The Pimpe peare is as great as the Windsor peare, but rounder, and of a very good 
rellish.” 
Pinneo. 1. Cultivator 304. 1845. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 833. 1869. 
Hebron. 3. Mag. Hort. 24:419. 1858. 
Boston. 4. Ibid. 500. 1858. 
The parent tree of this variety was found growing in a woodland, New Haven, Conn., 
by Dea. Pinneo who transplanted it to a spot near his dwelling about the year 1745. It 
was propagated and distributed over many farms and found a good market in Boston. 
