522 THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 
covered with fawn-colored mottles of russet and small gray dots; flesh whitish, watery, 
semi-fine, melting: juice very abundant, saccharine, richly flavored, aromatic, with an 
agreeable acidity; first; Sept. and Oct. 
Robert Treel. 1. Guide Prat. 104. 1876. 
Published by J. de Jonghe, Bel. Tree very fertile. Fruit medium; flesh melting; 
first; Feb. 
Robine. 1. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:174, Pl. XXVII. 1768. 2. Hogg Fruit Man. 
637. 1884. 
This is an ancient pear of unascertained origin, though the pomologists Turpin and 
Poiteau and others have regarded it as French. It is often known as the Royale d’ Eté, 
and has had various other synonyms. Fruit below medium, globular-turbinate, bright 
green changing to yellow, dotted with greenish-gray; flesh white, fine or semi-fine, almost 
breaking, rather dry, very saccharine, sweet and having an agreeable musky flavor; second; 
-mid-Aug. 
Robitaillié pére. 1. Rev. Hort. 463. 1906. 
A French pear raised at the beginning of the present century by M. Robitaillié. Fruit 
very large; skin yellow, dotted with green and fawn, becoming golden at full maturity; 
flesh fine, saccharine, acidulous, very juicy; first; season late and prolonged until Jan. 
Rockeneirbirne. 1. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 2:2. 1856. 
South Germany, 1847. Fruit small, smooth and shining; flesh yellow-white, some- 
what blushed; first, for household use and perry; Sept. 
Roe Bergamot. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 843. 1869. 
Bergamoite de Roe. 2. Mas Pom. Gen. 1:117, fig. 59. 1872. 
Raised by William Roe, Newburgh, N. Y. Fruit medium in size, form oblate or 
Bergamot-shaped, rather irregular; skin smooth, yellow, with minute yellow dots on the 
shaded side, washed with red on the side of the sun; flesh rather coarse, sweet, rich, per- 
fumed flavor suggestive of Gansel Bergamot but much more sugary; good to very good; 
Sept. Tree fairly vigorous and prolific. 
Rogers. 1. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 157. 1867. 
Reported as a new pear in 1867. Fruit said to be similar to the Louise Bonne de 
Jersey in shape and size but like the Washington in dots, markings and flavor; end of 
Sept. 
Roggenhoferbirne. 1. Loschnig Mostbirnen 170, fig. 1913. 
A perry pear which came first probably from Lower Austria. Fruit small to medium, 
turbinate to pyriform, the apex being rather acute; skin firm, grass-green turning to greenish- 
yellow, blushed on the sunny side, dotted all over with numerous gray-brown dots; flesh 
whitish, coarse-grained, fairly juicy, subacid; good for cider and drying; end of Aug. 
Roi-Guillaume. 1. Mas Pom. Gen. 4:91, fig. 238. 1879. 
Gained by Van Mons. Fruit medium, ovate, uneven on all its surface; skin at first 
pale water-green, sprinkled with brown dots, changing to lemon-yellow, more golden on 
the side next the sun and often washed with orange-red; flesh-white, coarse, granular, 
rather gritty at core; juice saccharine and perfumed but rather wanting in amount; third 
for the table, good for the kitchen; Sept. 
