514 THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 
gray-russet; flesh white, fine and juicy, melting, slightly gritty at the center, saccharine, 
agreeably acid, with a delicious perfume; first; May. 
Professeur Barral. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:56s, fig. 1869. 
M. Boisselot, Nantes, Fr., a well known seedsman, obtained this pear from seeds 
of Bartlett, in 1862. Fruit very large, globular, rather irregular and bossed; skin thick, 
orange-yellow, dotted with gray and lightly washed with bright russet on the exposed side; 
flesh whitish, fine or semi-fine, melting, watery; juice abundant, sugary, vinous, acidulous 
and full of flavor; first; Oct. and beginning of Nov. 
Professeur Bazin. 1. Rev. Hort. 494. 1898. 
A posthumous variety raised from a seed bed of M. Tourasse and placed on the market 
in 1898 by M. Baltet, Troyes, Fr. Fruit large, often very large, pyramidal, ventriculous 
at the middle, water-green, passing to lemon-yellow, mottled with fawn-brown; flesh 
extremely fine and melting, juicy, saccharine, with a delicate perfume; very good; Dec. 
and Jan. 
Professeur Dubreuil. 1. Pom. France 3:No. 97, Pl. 97. 1865. 2. Hogg Fruit Man. 634. 
1884. 
Obtained by M. Dubreuil, professor of horticulture, from a bed of seeds of Louise- 
Bonne de Jersey made at the Botanical Garden of Rouen in 1840. Fruit medium, 
pyriform, more or less swelled; skin rather thick, oily, green changing to lemon-yellow, 
dotted with russet and carmined on the side of the sun; flesh white, fine, buttery, full of 
sugary juice, with an agreeable perfume; first; end of Aug. and early Sept. 
Professeur Grosdemange. 1. Baltet Cult. Fr. 340, 342, fig. 243. 1908. 
Fruit large, obovate-pyriform; coloring bright yellow with vermilion blush; flesh of 
good quality; Jan. to Mar. 
Professeur Hennau. 1. Ann. Pom. Belge 8:77, fig. 1860. 
M. Xavier Grégoire, a tanner at Jodoigne, Bel., obtained this variety from seed. 
Fruited in 1860. Fruit above medium, ovate, more or less irregular, swelled and bossed, 
often a little contorted in its lower part, olive-yellow dotted with ashen gray, veined or 
speckled with fawn and washed with golden russet on the cheek exposed to the sun; flesh 
white, rather coarse, semi-melting, watery, very granular around the center; juice abundant, 
saccharine, tartish, delicate although slight perfume; second; Nov. 
Professeur Hortolés. 1. Guide Prat. 57. 1895. 
Raised by M. F. Morel, a horticulturist at Lyons, Fr. Tree vigorous and fertile, 
suitable for all forms of growth. Fruit rather large, pyriform-ventriculous, greenish- 
yellow, blushed with brownish-red on the side next the sun; flesh white, fine, melting, 
very juicy; first; Sept. and Oct. 
Professeur Opoix. 1. Rev. Hort. 532, fig. 240. 1901. 
A seedling from the establishment of Baltet Brothers, Troyes, Fr. Reported in 1901. 
Fruit rather large, globular, slightly oval, a little bossed, bright green passing to whitish- 
yellow, dotted with brown; flesh fine, yellow-butter tinted, very juicy, melting, saccharine, 
with a pleasant aromatic perfume: excellent; Jan. to Mar. 
Professeur Willermoz. 1. Guide Prat. 98. 1895. 
Obtained by M. Joanon at Saint-Cyr near Lyons, Fr. Fruit large or rather large, 
