THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 557 
yellow, dotted with russet on the shaded side and extensively washed with vivid rose on 
the other cheek where it is sprinkled with gray points; flesh white, fine, soft, semi-melting, 
slightly gritty at the center; juice sufficient, saccharine, often rather astringent but always 
full of flavor; second and sometimes third; Sept. and Oct. 
Summer Virgalieu. 1. Downing Fr. Trees. Am. 864. 1869. 
Virgalieu d’été. 2. Mas Pom.Gen.1:5, fig.3. 1872. 
Origin unknown. Tree moderately vigorous, productive. Fruit roundish, pyriform, 
yellow, slightly netted and patched with russet, thickly sprinkled with russet dots; stem 
rather long, set in a small cavity; calyx open; segments recurved; basin shallow, uneven; 
flesh yellowish, juicy, melting, slightly vinous; good; Aug. 
Superfondanta. 1. Kenrick Am. Orch. 153. 1841. 
Received by Simon-Louis Bros., Metz, Lorraine, from Italy. Fruit medium, obovate, 
smooth, pale yellow, marked with a few dots and sometimes marked with russet; flesh 
white, buttery, melting, very good; Oct. 
Supréme Coloma. 1. Mas Le Verger 3:Pt. 2, 40, fig. 121. 1866-73. 
Kopertscher. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 796. 1869. 
Count Coloma, Mechlin, Bel., made seed beds in 1786. From these beds came the 
Supréme Coloma, a fruit of exquisite flavor. Fruit above medium, ovate, shortened, 
obtuse; skin delicate, olive-yellow, always mottled with greenish-russet and thickly covered 
with brown dots; flesh whitish, fine, melting, nearly free from grit, very full of saccharine 
juice, acidulous, with a special perfume of much delicacy; first; Oct. 
Surpasse Crassane. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:687, fig. 1869. 2. Hogg Fruit Man. 652. 
1884. 
A seedling of Van Mons obtained about 1820 in his nursery at Louvain, Bel. Fruit 
medium, globular or globular-turbinate, flattened at the base, mammillate at the summit; 
skin dark olive-yellow, much covered with russet and tinted with dark red on the cheek 
touched by the sun; flesh whitish, fine, melting, juicy, granular around the center; juice 
abundant, very saccharine, highly perfumed, with an agreeable tartish taste; first; Oct. 
to Dec. 
Surpasse Meuris. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:688, fig. 1869. 2. Hogg Fruit Man. 653. 1884. 
The Surpasse Meuris was gained by Van Mons at Brussels before 1818. Fruit large, 
pyriform or turbinate-obtuse, always ventriculated toward the base and generally rather 
bossed; skin rough, olive-yellow dotted with gray, mottled with fawn and often colored 
with brown-red on the side next the sun; flesh white, tinged with yellow, semi-fine and 
semi-melting; juice extremely abundant, very saccharine, tartish and savory; first, some- 
times second when the juice is slightly perfumed; Sept. 
Surpasse St. Germain. 1. Kenrick Am. Orch. 198. 1833. 
A seedling of Van Mons imported in 1819. Fruit rather large and oblong, rounded 
at the base and tapering toward the stalk, irregular in outline, green and brown; winter. 
Surpasse Virgalieu. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 416, fig. 189. 1845. 2. Leroy Dict. Pom. 
2:868, fig. 1869. 
The origin of this variety is unknown. Andrew Parmentier introduced it from his 
nursery at Brooklyn under this name about 1800. Fruit rather large, obovate; skin 
