508 THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 
Premature. 1. Kenrick Am. Orch. 157. 1832. 
Originated in Scotland about 1830. Fruit below medium; flesh very juicy and 
delicious, superior to the Crawford, of Scotland, reputed a most superior early fruit; early 
Aug. 
Prémices d’Ecully. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:544, fig. . 1869. 2. Hogg Fruit Man. 632. 
1884. 
Obtained by M. Luizet, a nurseryman at Ecully-lez-Lyon, Rhéne, Fr., from a bed of 
mixed seeds made in 1847. Fruit rather large, irregular ovate, round and bossed, yellow, 
with here and there a green tinge, thickly spotted and stained with small blotches of brown- 
russet; flesh tender, whitish, fine, melting, juicy, easily becoming soft, sweet, saccharine, 
with a flavor of musk; Sept. 
Prémices de Wagelwater. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 836. 1869. 
Fruit below medium, globular-obovate-pyriform, sides unequal, yellow with a few 
traces of russet and thickly sprinkled with brown dots; flesh whitish, melting, juicy, very 
sweet; good to very good; Oct. 
Premier. 1. Hogg Fruit Man. 632. 1884. 
Raised at the Royal Garden, Frogmore, Eng., and first exhibited in 1871. Fruit 
above medium, oblong, terminating abruptly and bluntly at the stalk, undulating in out- 
line and contracted with a waist at the middle; skin covered with cinnamon-colored russet; 
flesh semi-melting, very juicy, sweet, and brisk, with a flavor resembling pineapple; good; 
Nov. 
Premier Président Métivier. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:545, fig. 18609. 
A variety raised in Leroy’s nurseries at Angers, Fr., in 1867. Fruit above medium or 
large, globular, flattened at the poles, more enlarged on one side than on the other; skin 
rough, grass-green, dotted and veined with olive-russet on the shaded side, and bronzed 
and dotted with bright fawn on the face exposed to the sun; flesh very white, melting, fine 
or semi-fine, free from granulations, very juicy, acidulous, highly saccharine, with delicious 
perfume and flavor; first; Oct. 
Présent de Van Mons. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:546, fig. 18609. 
A seedling of Van Mons raised at Louvain, Bel., but which first fruited with General 
Delaage at Angers, Fr., in 1844. Fruit large, turbinate, shortened and ventriculous in 
its lower part, very much narrowed and slightly constricted at the top which is rarely very 
obtuse, lemon-yellow, strewn with large gray dots, fully colored with dull red on the side 
exposed to the sun; flesh white, fine, or semi-fine, melting, gritty below the core; juice 
abundant; saccharine, sourish and vinous, with an aromatic flavor; first; Feb. to Apr. 
President. 1. Mass. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 44: 1865. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 836. 1869. 
A seedling raised by S. A. Shurtleff, Brookline, Mass., and fruited in 1861. Fruit very 
large, globular-obovate, somewhat irregular; skin slightly rough, greenish-yellow, pale red 
in the sun, considerable russet next the base of the stalk and traces of russet and con- 
spicuous dots all over; flesh yellowish-white, rather coarse, melting, juicy, slightly vinous: 
good; early Nov. 
Président Barabé. 1. Guide Prat.97. 1895. 2. Bunyard Handb. Hardy Fr. 193. 1920. 
First fruited in 1870 from a seed of Bergamotte Espéren with M. Sannier, Rouen, Fr. 
