500 THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 
By error it acquired also the names of Boston and Virgalieu. Fruit medium or below, 
globular-oblate, slightly pyriform, pale yellow, netted, patched, and dotted with russet, 
slightly blushed on the sunny side; flesh yellowish-white, fine, melting, juicy, rich, sugary, 
brisk, with a refreshing and delicious aroma; good; Aug. 
Piton. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:533, fig. 1869. 
A seedling found by M. Piton who lived at Cholet, Maine-et-Loire, Fr. The Horti- 
cultural Society of Angers described it in its Pomology, and it was named after its propa- 
gator. Fruit large to very large, long-turbinate-obtuse, depressed at each pole, clear 
dull green, sown with large russet dots; flesh white, semi-breaking and semi-fine, watery, 
containing some grit below the core; juice rather vinous, sugary, and more or less perfumed; 
second for dessert, first for compotes. 
Pitson. 1. Gard. Mon. 27:14. 1885. 
A handsome pear from Stone and Wellington, Fonthill, Ont. Fruit medium, regularly 
pyriform, brown inclining to russet; good; Jan. 
Pius X. 1. Gard. Chron. 3rd Ser. 37:309. 1905. 
Described in 1905 as a new pear raised by the Alexiens Brothers at Tirlemont, Bel. 
Fruit large, somewhat cylindric, greenish-olive, with a few brown spots; flesh creamy- 
white, perfumed; reported to be of first rate quality; Oct. 
Plantagenet. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom.2:534, fig. 1869. 2. DowningFr. Trees Am. 834. 18609. 
The Plantagenet was raised from seed by the old Horticultural Society of Maine-et- 
Loire. The parent tree gave its first fruit in 1858 in the Society’s garden at Angers. Fruit 
above medium, irregular-ovate, bossed, swelled at the central circumference, of a uniform 
bright green, some russet around the calyx and sprinkled with numerous dark brown dots; 
flesh whitish, fine or semi-fine, extremely melting; juice very abundant, extremely saccha- 
rine, acidulous, possessing a delicious perfume which gives an after-taste of musk; first; 
end of Sept. and early Oct. 
Plascart. 1. Guide Prat. 102. 1876. 2. Mas Pom. Gen. 3:37, fig. 115. 1878. 
Sent out by the Society Van Mons, Bel., without any account of its origin. Fruit 
below medium, turbinate-ovate, even in outline; skin firm, pale water-green, covered with 
numerous large, brown dots, very prominent, the green changing at maturity to a beautiful 
golden yellow, washed on the side next the sun with a lively vermilion on which the dots 
are golden yellow; flesh yellowish, semi-fine, rather firm and breaking; juice rich in sugar 
and perfumed; good; Oct. 
Platt. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 535. 1857. 2. Ibid. 834. 1860. 
Originated on the farm of Thomas Tredwell, Beekmantown, Clinton County, N. Y. 
Fruit medium, globular-oblate, pale yellow, netted and patched with russet and sprinkled 
with russet dots; flesh whitish, juicy, buttery, semi-melting, agreeable; good; Oct. 
Platte Honigbirne. 1. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 2:189. 1856. 
Nassau, 1801. Fruit medium, obtuse-turbinate, light yellow-green, with a pale blush, 
numerous gray dots, marked with russet; flesh coarse-grained, aromatic; third for dessert, 
first for household; Sept. 
Pocahontas. 1. Mag. Hort. 133525. 1847. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 834. 18609. 
Originated at Quincy, Mass., and was exhibited before the Horticultural Society of 
