518 THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 
rather vigorous, forward according to accounts, fertile. Fruit medium or rather large, 
bronze in color, washed with red on the side exposed to the sun; flesh fine, juicy, sugary, 
vinous; Jan. 
Red Garden. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 841. 1869. 
Raised by Josiah Youngken, Richlandtown, Pa. Fruit medium, obovate-pyriform, 
pale yellow, shaded and mottled with a few crimson dots on the side next the sun, netted 
and patched with russet and thickly sprinkled with brown dots; flesh whitish, a little coarse, 
juicy, melting, sweet, pleasant; good to very good; Sept. 
Red Pear. 1. Hogg Fruit Man. 636. 1884. 
A perry pear grown largely in Herefordshire, Eng. Fruit small, globular, even and 
regular in outline, inclining to turbinate, almost entirely covered with rather bright red, 
yellow around the stalk where shaded, sprinkled all over with pale gray dots; flesh quite 
yellow, firm, dry and gritty. 
Redfield. 1. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 195. +1867. 
Raised from seed by J. W. Crosby, St. George, Utah, and first fruited in 1861. Fruit 
in size, shape and color resembles Bartlett, but is a little more tapering at the stem, yellowish- 
green, with a brownish-red cheek; flesh sweet, sprightly, melting; ripens a little later than 
Bartlett. 
Refreshing. 1. Rural N.Y. 242, figs. 133, 134. 1885. 
Raised by Benjamin Macomber, Grand Isle, Vt. Fruit below medium, bright golden 
yellow; stem stout, medium long, in a small cavity; flesh whitish, juicy, melting, sweet; 
very good; Sept. 
Regina Margherita. 1. Rev. Hort. 224. 1806. 
An Italian pear published in 1896 as a new variety. Fruit in form similar to that of 
Passe Crassane, greenish-yellow, washed with green; flesh very saccharine, somewhat acid, 
buttery, perfumed. 
Régine. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 841. 1869. 
A Van Mons seedling. Fruit medium, globular-pyriform, greenish-yellow, with slight 
nettings of russet and thickly sprinkled with green and brown dots; flesh white, juicy, 
melting, sweet, pleasant; good; Sept. 
Regnier. 1. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 185. 1854. 
A native variety which originated with Madame Regnier, Philadelphia, Pa. Reported 
by the Committee on Fruits of the American Pomological Society in 1854. Fruit above 
medium, ovate, yellow, with usually a colored cheek; very good; 
Reichendckerin. 1. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 2:10. 1856. 
Wurttemberg, Ger., 1847. Fruit medium, globular, dark green, with brownish blush, 
gray dots; first for household; mid-Dec. and Jan. 
Reine des Belges. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:578, fig. 1869. ' 
A seedling raised by Van Mons at Louvain, Bel., in 1832. Fruit above medium, 
ovate, tending to globular, always slightly mammillate at the top; skin fine and shining, 
pale yellow, sprinkled with very small russet dots, and slightly blushed with tender rose 
on the side exposed to the sun; flesh very white, a little coarse, melting or semi-breaking, 
watery, rather granular at center; juice saccharine, vinous, perfumed; second; Sept. 
