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and reported as about twelve years old in 1896. Similar to Bartlett but of higher quality, 
better color, and later season. Fruit large, obovate-pyriform, light yellow, with blushed 
cheek, green mottling and black dots on shady side; flesh white, vinous, sprightly; very 
good; Oct. and Nov. 
Senfbirne. 1. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 2:183. 1856. 
Hanover. First published in 1852. Fruit medium, ventriculous and conic, often 
somewhat turbinate, unattractive green turning yellowish, often darkly blushed, spotted; 
flesh rather coarse, fairly juicy, sweet; first for household use; Oct. and Nov. for six 
weeks. 
Seringe. 1. Gard. Chron. 1045. 1866. 
M. Nérard, a nurseryman at Lyons, Fr., obtained Seringe, which was published first 
in 1864. Fruit medium, oval, inclining to obovate, a little depressed at the ends; skin 
citron or pale yellow, smooth, with some russet specks; flesh white, very melting and sugary; 
Aug. 
Serrurier. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 543. 1857. 2. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:660. 1869. 
Van Mons obtained this variety from seed at Louvain, Bel., about 1825. Fruit large; 
form rather inconstant, passing from irregular ovate, swelled and much bossed, to ovate 
more or less globular, and mammillate at the summit; skin thick, olive-yellow, closely 
dotted with gray, stained with fawn around the calyx and touched with some brown- 
russet and occasionally vermilioned on the side exposed to the sun; flesh whitish, melting 
or semi-melting, juicy, vinous and saccharine, possessing a tartish flavor and a particularly 
pleasant aroma; first; Oct. and Nov. 
Seutin. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 854. 1869. 
Poire Seutin. 2. Mas Pom. Gen. 5:143, fig. 360. 1880. 
According to Bivort the pear Seutin was obtained by M. Bouvier, Jodoigne, Bel. 
Fruit medium, ovate-pyriform, more or less long, sometimes symmetrical, sometimes 
rather angular in its contour; skin thick, firm, at first bright green sprinkled with dots 
of green-gray, changing to lemon-yellow tinged with golden-russet on the side next the 
sun; flesh whitish, rather fine, gritty at the center, semi-buttery, fairly juicy, sweet, and 
delicately perfumed; winter. 
Sha Lea. 1. Ja. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 303. 1879. 2. Cornell Sta. Bul. 332:485. 1913. 
Chinese Sand. 3. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 851. 1869. 
A Chinese sand pear imported from China by Wm. R. Prince, Flushing, N. Y., about 
1820. Fruit medium, globular-pyriform, dull yellow, covered with a rough, sandy-like 
russet; flesh firm, moderately juicy; cooks well and acquires a fine flavor; Sept. 
Shawmut. 1. Mag. Hort. 25:209, fig. 14. 1859. 
Originated with Francis Dana, Roxbury, Mass. Fruit large, obtuse-pyriform, regular; 
skin fair, nearly smooth, dull yellow at maturity, dotted with large, round, russet specks, 
most numerous on the sunny side; flesh yellowish, coarse, melting, very juicy, rich, vinous, 
sprightly, with a pleasant musky perfume; Oct. 
Shenandoah. 1. Mass. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 43. 1866. 
A seedling raised by S. A. Shurtleff, Brookline, Mass. It fruited first in 1862. Fruit 
“Skin yellow; flesh fine-grained and sweet, keeps well, and is a good market pear; pyriform.” 
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