550 THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 
confounded with the Souvenir d’Espéren raised by M. Bivort. Fruit medium or rather 
large, conic-pyriform, often a little irregular in contour; skin fine, thin, water-green, sprinkled 
with large brown dots, both numerous and prominent and patches of russet, changing 
to lemon-yellow at maturity, the russet becoming golden; flesh white, a little tinted with 
yellow, rather fine, buttery, melting; juice sufficient in amount and highly saccharine 
and perfumed; good; Oct. 
Souvenir Favre. 1. Ann. Pom. Belge 8:65, fig. 1860. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 
and App. 134. 1872. 
Originated by M. Favre, Chalons, Fr., from seed of Glou Morceau planted in 1850. 
Fruit medium to below, conic-pyriform, pale yellow, dotted with many brown and green 
dots; stem short, rather stout, in a slight cavity; calyx open; basin small, uneven, slightly 
russeted; flesh whitish, slightly coarse, half-melting, juicy, sweet, aromatic; good to very 
good; Oct. 
Souvenir de Gaéte. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:671, fig. 1869. 
M. Ruillé de Beauchamp obtained the Souvenir de Gaéte from seed of the Beurré 
de l’Assomption. It received the recommendation of the pomological committee of the 
Horticultural Society of Paris. Fruit above medium and sometimes large, irregular- 
turbinate or ovate, mammillate at the top and ventriculated at the middle, bright yellow, 
finely dotted and streaked with fawn and extensively washed with tender rose on the 
cheek opposed to the sun; flesh white, very fine, melting and free from granulations; juice 
very abundant, saccharine, refreshing and vinous with a characteristic perfume and flavor; 
first; Oct. ; , 
Souvenir de Julia. 1. Guide Prat. 60. 1895. 
Sent out by M. Daras de Naghin of Antwerp, Bel. Tree vigorous and fertile. Fruit 
medium, globular, whitish-yellow, blushed with rose; flesh fine, semi-melting, saccharine, 
juicy; first; Oct. and Nov. 
Souvenir de Leroux-Durand. 1. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 285. 1889. 2. Guide Prat. 100. 
1895. 
Published in Germany in 1879. ‘Tree vigorous and fertile. Fruit large or very large, 
oblong, bright yellow, stained with golden-russet; flesh very melting, vinous, highly sac- 
charine and very agreeably perfumed; first; Oct. 
Souvenir de Lydie. 1. Guide Prat. 58. 1895. 
A Belgian variety disseminated by Daras de Naghin of Antwerp. Fruit rather large, 
Doyenné in form, greenish-yellow; flesh semi-fine, melting, highly saccharine; first; 
Oct. 
Souvenir de Madame Charles. 1. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 285. 18809. 2. Guide Prat. 100. 
1895. 
Raised by M. Sannier, Rouen, Fr., from seed of Serrurier. Tree vigorous, fertile 
and suitable for all forms of cultivation. Fruit medium to large, having the form of the 
Passe Colmar, gray; flesh very fine, melting, saccharine and perfumed; Dec. and Jan. 
Souvenir de la Reine des Belges. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:673, fig. 1869. 2. Downing 
Fr, Trees Am. 857. 1869. 
Xavier Grégoire, Jodoigne, Bel., obtained this pear in 1855. Fruit above medium, 
