THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 539 
Sainte Thérése. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:642, fig. 1869. 
Raised by André Leroy, Angers, Fr. It first fruited in 1863. Fruit medium and 
often larger, ovate, irregular and rather long, always larger on one side than on the other, 
water-green, dotted and mottled with russet and stained with patches of fawn; flesh white, 
fine, melting; juice very abundant, very saccharine, perfumed and possessing an agreeably 
acid flavor; latter half of Oct. 
Salisbury. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 541. 1857. 
A native of western New York. Fruit depressed-pyriform; skin rough, somewhat 
covered with russet and thickly sprinkled with russet dots; flesh coarse; of only moderate 
quality; Oct. 
Salviati. 1. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:137, Pl. IX. 1768. 2. Hogg Fruit Man. 643. 
1884. 
Merlet, French pomologist, described this pear in L’Abrégé des bon fruits in 1675. 
Fruit below medium to medium; form variable from obtuse-turbinate to slightly long 
ovate-turbinate; skin thin, wax-yellow, dotted with greenish spots, sometimes much 
stained with scaly russet and sometimes tinted with reddish-brown on the side touched 
by the sun; flesh whitish, coarse, semi-melting, gritty at the center; juice scanty, rather 
saccharine, sweet, but with a strong and disagreeable odor of musk; third; Sept. 
Salzburger von Adlitz. 1. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 2:14. 1856. 
A pear much esteemed in Bavaria, Wirttemberg, and Upper Austria. Fruit nearly 
medium, short-conic, even in outline, greenish-yellow, handsomely blushed, densely dotted 
with fine points; skin without scent; flesh mild, tender, melting; first for dessert, especially 
good for household and market; beginning of Sept. 
Sam Brown. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. and App. 134, fig. 1872. 
Originated with Samuel Brown, Junior, Walnut Hills, Md. Exhibited at Philadelphia 
in 1869. Fruit full medium size or under, globular, obtuse-pyriform, a little uneven, pale 
yellow partly covered with thin russet, resembling Brown Beurré somewhat in appearance 
and very much in flavor, sometimes rather brownish in the sun; flesh white, a little coarse, 
melting, juicy, vinous and rich; very good, nearly best; Sept. 
Samenlose. 1. Ja. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 382. 1885. 
A Russian pear from the province of Vilna, which seems to be a near relative of the 
Bessemianka, but differs in expression of tree. Fruit above medium, of Bergamot type 
and good in quality. 
Sanguine d’Italie. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:647, fig. 1869. 
Imported into France about the beginning of the last century. Fruit medium, tur- 
binate and regular, rather obtuse, grass-green, dotted with gray on the shaded side and with 
yellow-red on the sun-exposed side; flesh breaking, gritty, coarse, dull yellow, veined 
with red especially about the core where the yellow almost entirely disappears under the 
blood-red; juice never abundant, saccharine, sweet, without much perfume; third; Aug. 
and Sept. 
Sanguinole. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 851. 1869. 2. Bunyard Handb. Hardy Fr. 
197. 1920. 
Sanguine de France. 3. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:645, fig. 1869. 
