THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 523 
Roi de Rome. 1. Ann. Pom. Belge 6:51, fig. 1858. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 843. 
1860. 
The Abbé Duquesnes, to whom we are beholden for many good fruits, found this 
pear in Hainaut, Bel. Fruit very large, pyriform, pyramidal, olive-green, with dark gray 
shading around the stalk and calyx, strongly blushed with orange-red and dotted with 
bright gray on the side next the sun, and yellow at maturity on the shaded cheek, with 
brown-black dots; flesh fine, semi-melting, yellowish-white; juice abundant, saccharine, 
with an agreeable perfume; second for table, first for household; Sept. 
Roitelet. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 843. 1869. 
A Flemish pear. Fruit small, globular, yellow,— netted, shaded and sprinkled with 
russet; flesh whitish, semi-melting, juicy, sweet; good; Sept. 
Rokeby. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 844. 1869. 2. Mas Pom. Gen. 1:73, fig. 37. 1872. 
Gained by M. Bivort, Bel., and first published in 1848. Fruit medium or below, 
pyriform, swelled in lower half, lower end flat, bright green turning to bright yellow in 
the shade and blood-red on the cheek exposed to the sun; flesh white, semi-fine, juicy, 
wanting in quality; second; Aug. and Sept. 
Rolmaston Duchess. 1. Horticulturist 29:148. 1874. 
Published in 1874. Fruit medium, pyriform, yellow-green; flesh fine, melting, juicy, 
vinous; very good; Oct. 
Ronde du Bosquet. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:586, fig. 1869. 
Raised from seed and bore the name of the place where the parent tree, which was 
first described in 1863, grew in M. Leroy’s grounds, Angers, Fr. Fruit below medium, 
irregularly globular and strongly bossed, bright yellow, dotted with brown, much mottled 
‘with russet; flesh whitish, watery, very fine, melting, rarely gritty; juice abundant, vinous, 
saccharine, possessing a delicious perfume; first; Oct. 
Rondelet. 1. Mag. Hort. 12:340. -1846. 2. Ibid. 18:436, fig. 32. 1852. 
Obtained in France by M. Francois Dehove. Fruit medium, remarkably oblate, 
with a slightly uneven surface, much flattened at each end; skin fair, smooth, green turning 
yellow at maturity, faintly blushed on the side next the sun, and thickly dotted with russet 
intermixed with a few greenish specks; flesh yellow-white, buttery, melting, juicy, saccharine 
and musky; first; Oct. 
Ropes. 1. Mag. Hort. 12:500. 1846. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 844. 1869. 
Originated with Mr. Ropes, Salem, Mass., about 1846. Fruit medium, obovate, 
cinnamon-russet; stem short; cavity inclined; calyx small, open, set in a shallow basin; flesh 
whitish, coarse, melting, juicy, sugary, aromatic; good; Oct. and Nov. 
Rorreger Mostbirne. 1. Léschnig Mostbirnen 50, fig. 1913. 
An Austrian perry pear. Fruit large, globular-turbinate to pyriform; skin smooth, 
shining green turning yellow, numerous small green dots; flesh whitish, rather coarse- 
grained, subacid and very juicy; mid-Oct. and Nov. 
Rosabirne. 1. Horticuliurist 8:65. 1853. 
A foreign pear introduced to this country as a new variety in the middle of the last 
century. Fruit medium, obovate-acute-pyriform, surface uneven, dull greenish-yellow, 
almost entirely overspread with russet; flesh white, melting and juicy, with a delicious, 
