THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 505 
Poire du Voyageur. 1. Guide Prat. 107, 311. 1876. 
Originated by M. Boisbunel of Rouen, Fr. Tree vigorous and fertile. Fruit medium, 
pyriform, yellowish-green; flesh juicy, granular around the core; third; summer. 
Poirier de Jardin. 1. Duhamel Trazt. Arb. Fr. 2:143, Pl. XIX, fig. 3. 1768. 
Garden Pear. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 770. 1869. 
Origin unknown; probably French. Fruit large, globular-oblate, orange-shaped, sur- 
face a little bossed, on the side of the sun a beautiful deep red, spotted with golden-yellow, 
the shaded side being streaked and rayed with bright red on yellow; flesh semi-breaking, 
a little coarse and somewhat gritty around the core; juice sugary and of a very good flavor; 
good; Dec. 
Poiteau. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:537, fig. 1869. 
Raised by Van Mons, and first fruited at Louvain, Bel., in 1823. Fruit above 
medium, long-ovate, variable in form, sometimes being short-ovate and ventriculous, 
orange-yellow, dotted with brown, stained with greenish-russet around the calyx and 
stem, and mottled with the same on the cheek next the sun; flesh whitish, rather coarse, 
melting, gritty, full of saccharine juice, sometimes astringent, without pronounced perfume; 
second; Oct. 
Polish Lemon. 1. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 61. 1887. 
Known as Cytrymova in Poland. It was received in 1882 by the Iowa State Agri- 
cultural College, and was subsequently propagated and distributed by the College. 
Polk. 1. Mag. Hort. 11:252. 1845. 
A seedling raised by H. W. Edwards, New Haven, Conn., at one time Governor of 
that state. It came into bearing in 1844. Fruit larger than the Seckel, like Bergamot in 
form; flesh juicy, melting, subacid, sweet and rich; first; Sept to Nov. 
Pollan. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 834. 1869. 
A Pennsylvania pear. Fruit below medium, nearly globular, greenish-yellow, with a 
shade of brown in the sun; flesh whitish, a little coarse, moderately juicy, vinous, pleasant; 
good; Aug. 
Polivaskaja. 1. Jowa Hort. Soc. Rpt. 61. 1880. 
A Russian variety growing on the Iowa State College Farm in 1880, and having thorny 
wood; it unites very imperfectly with the apple. It shows “ marked traces of the Chinese 
forms of the pear in shape, serration, thickness and size of leaf, and in the peculiar enlarged 
character of the scaly terminal buds.” 
Polnische griine Krautbirne. 1. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 2:155. 1856. 
Galicia, 1819. Fruit small, globular-flattened, distorted, grass-green changing to 
yellowish grass-green and often with a dark blush and brown-russet on the side next the 
sun; scentless skin; flesh coarse-grained, melting, vinous, very juicy, acidulous; second for 
dessert, first for household; mid-Sept. 
Polnische Seidenbirne. 1. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 2:145. 1856. 
Galicia, 1812. Fruit medium to large, regular in form, light lemon-yellow, often rather 
blushed, sprinkled with numerous small, prominent, light brown and often greenish dots; 
flesh breaking, and coarse-grained, sweet, Muscatel in flavor; third for dessert, very good 
for household purposes; Sept. 
