512 THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 
Prince Impérial de France. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:554, fig. 1889. 2. Downing Fr. 
Trees Am. 837. 1869. 
M. Grégoire, the well-known Belgian seedsman, obtained this variety at Jodoigne in 
1850 from seed of Pastorale sown in 1835. Fruit above medium, irregular-ovate and rather 
swelled, having one side usually more enlarged than the other, bright green, dotted, 
streaked, patched and spotted with fawn-russet; flesh white, fine, juicy, melting, slightly 
gritty below the core; juice abundant, refreshing, saccharine, acidulous, perfumed; first; 
Sept. 
Prince de Joinville. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 837. 186g. 
Belgian; first fruited in 1848. Fruit medium, globular, green changing to golden 
yellow, with a vivid blush on the cheek next the sun, brown spots and some russet; flesh 
yellowish-white, semi-fine, melting, acidulous, sweet, agreeably aromatic; first for dessert, 
household and market; Nov. 
Prince Napoléon. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:556, fig. 1869. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 
837. 1869. 
Raised by M. Boisbunel, Rouen, Fr., from seed of the Passe Crassane in 1864. Fruit 
medium and sometimes above, globular, rarely regular and often mammillate at the top, 
olive-yellow, covered largely with mottlings of brown and sprinkled with indistinct gray 
dots; flesh white-greenish or yellowish, semi-fine, semi-melting; juice sufficient, saccharine, 
vinous, with a delicate perfume; first; Feb. and Mar. 
Prince d’Orange. 1. Mag. Hort. 21:146. 1855. 
Raised by Van Mons at Louvain and numbered 891 in his Catalog of 1823, second and 
third series, and regarded by J. de Jonghe, Brussels, as one of Van Mons’ more remarkable 
fruits; form and flavor of Passe Colmar. 
Prince de Printemps. 1. Kenrick Am. Orch. 198. 1832. 
A Flemish pear imported by a Mr. Braddick in 1819. Fruit small, turbinate, green; 
flesh buttery, sweet; good; very late. 
Prince Saint-Germain. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 447, fig. 207. 1845. 
Raised by William Prince, Flushing, Long Island, N. Y., and known also as Brown 
Saint Germain. Fruit medium, obovate inclining to oval-pyriform, green nearly covered 
with brownish-russet and blushed with dull red on the side next the sun; flesh yellowish- 
white, melting, juicy, with a vinous and very agreeable flavor; very good; Nov. to Mar. 
Prince Seed Virgalieu. 1. Mas Pom. Gen. 7:163, fig. 562. 188r. 
Origin unknown. Fruit medium, turbinate-conic and ventriculous, usually regular in 
form, pale green, slightly tinted with yellow, sprinkled with brownish-gray dots, small 
but numerous; at maturity the basic green becomes brilliant lemon-yellow and the side 
exposed to the sun washed with pale red; flesh white, fine, buttery, very melting; juice suffi- 
cient, saccharine; good; Oct. 
Princess. 1. Jour. Hort. N.S. 3:260. 1882. 2. Bunyard Handb. Hardy Fr.194. 1920. 
Raised by Messrs. Rivers, Sawbridgeworth, Eng., from seed of Louise Bonne de Jersey. 
Growth compact, upright, free bearer, valuable for market culture, and one to be depended 
upon in poor seasons; fine as a cordon. Fruit medium, long-pyriform, tapering almost to 
stalk, not very symmetrical, smooth and shining, rarely russety, green and pale green with 
