536 THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 
fumed flavor; very good, but is gritty and worthless if grown on cold, moist soil; Nov. 
to Mar. 
Saint Germain Gris. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:623, fig. 1869. 
Found by M. Prévost, long president of the Horticultural Society of Seine-Inférieure, 
Fr., in the ancient garden of the Friars of Saint-Ouen, at Rouen, about the year 1804. 
Fruit medium to large, long-ovate, irregular in its upper part and often bossed and elevated 
more on one side of the stalk than on the other, grayish-green dotted with brown; flesh 
yellowish, semi-fine, melting, saccharine, juicy, slightly acidulous, with a deliciously scented 
flavor; first; mid-Dec. and Jan. 
Saint Germain Panaché. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:625. 1869. 
This variegated variety of Saint Germain is of French origin; the date of its publication 
is about 1819. Fruit simply a variegated form of the Saint Germain, covered with rather 
large bands of bright yellow sometimes extending from stem to calyx. 
Saint Germain de Pepins. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 850. 1869. 
Foreign. Origin unknown. Fruit medium, nearly globular or obovate, slightly 
pyriform, pale yellow, lightly shaded or mottled with crimson in the sun, netted and patched 
with russet and thickly sprinkled with russet dots; flesh yellowish, coarse and gritty, with 
a hard core; good; Feb. 
Saint Germain Puvis. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:625, fig. 1869. 
M. Pariset, Curciat-Dongalon, Fr., obtained this variety in 1842. Fruit above 
medium, long-conic, obtuse, irregular, much bossed, grass-green, clouded with olive-yellow, 
sprinkled with small gray dots; flesh whitish, semi-fine, watery and melting, almost free 
from granulations; juice rather deficient, saccharine, acidulous, agreeable; second; end of 
Sept. and Oct. 
Saint Germain du Tilloy. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:626, fig. 1869. 
The origin of this pear is unknown though Leroy thought that its name indicated 
origin in the Department of the Nord where it formerly existed in important nurseries 
and where are two towns bearing the name Tilloy. Fruit medium and above, long-conic 
or cylindrical-conic, very obtuse, rather variable, golden-yellow, clouded with olive-yellow, 
covered with gray dots and speckles, always rather squamose, more or less washed with 
cinnamon-russet on the side next the sun; flesh white, semi-fine and semi-melting, gritty 
at center; juice abundant, sugary, acidulous, aromatic; first; mid-Oct. to end of Nov. 
Saint Germain Van Mons. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:628, fig. 18609. 
Van Mons Hermannsbirne. 2. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 2:60. 1856. 
The parent tree of this variety was a seedling raised by Van Mons at Brussels which 
fruited for the first time in 1819. Fruit rather above medium or medium, obovate-pyriform, 
one side habitually more swelled than the other, yellow-ochre, sprinkled with numerous 
gray and green dots; flesh yellowish, semi-fine and semi-melting, very granular at the 
core; juice rarely abundant, sugary, acidulous, rather savory; second; Oct. 
Saint Ghislain. 1. Hovey Fr. Am. 2:45, fig. 1851. 2. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:629, fig. 
1869. 
This pear was raised at the village of Jammapes, Hainaut, Bel., by M. Dorlain and 
was propagated by Van Mons and others. Fruit medium; form irregular, globular gourd- 
