558 THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 
smooth, pale lemon-yellow with a very few minute dots and rarely a little faint red on the 
sunny side; flesh white, exceedingly fine-grained and buttery, abounding with delicious 
highly flavored, aromatic juice, differing from that of the Doyenné; first; Oct. 
Surprise. 1. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 41. 1916. 
Surprise is a valuable blight-resistant variety belonging to Pyrus communis and 
promises to make a blight-resistant stock on which to top-work commercial varieties. 
Siisse Margarethenbirne. 1. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 2:53. 1856. 
Germany; first published in 1833. Fruit medium, pyriform, light yellow, often 
blushed with light red and thickly dotted; flesh semi-melting, granular, sweet, agreeably 
cinnamon-flavored; second for dessert, good for household and market; Aug. 
Siisse Sommerlahnbirne. 1. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obsikunde 2:52. 1856. 
German; published in 1805. Fruit fairly large, variable in form, ovate, often conic 
and ventriculous-pyriform, sides rather unequal, dull greenish-yellow turning to a fine 
citron-yellow, without any blush but russeted on the side next the sun, indistinct dots; 
flesh not juicy, saccharine, with flavor of black currant; second for dessert, very good for 
kitchen use and market; Aug. 
Suwanee. 1. Griffing Bros. Cat. 13, fig. 1909. 
Originated in southern Georgia and introduced by Griffing Brothers Company in 
1909. Fruit large, oblong, tapering towards both ends, blunt; skin tough, dark golden- 
russet over a yellow ground, with a slight tinge of red; flesh white, crisp, tender; good. 
Suzanne. 1. Mas. Pom. Gen. 3:120, fig. 161. 1878. 
Received by Oberdieck from Van Mons without a name. Fruit rather small, ovate, 
short and ventriculous, symmetrical in contour with its greatest diameter about the center; 
skin delicate, bright green, sprinkled with extremely numerous small brown spots, changing 
to pale yellow, golden on the side next the sun or sometimes touched with red; flesh white, 
tinted with yellow, very fine, buttery, melting, sufficiently juicy, saccharine and delicately 
perfumed; good; Sept. 
Suzette de Bavay. 1. Pom. France 2:No. 80, Pl. 80. 1863. 2. Downing Fr. Trees 
Am. 865. 1869. 
Major Espéren of Mechlin, Bel., obtained this long-season pear. It fruited first in 
1843. Fruit small or medium, globular, generally mammillate at the top; skin rough, 
pale yellow, dotted with greenish-brown and speckled with russet and reddish stains; 
flesh white, semi-fine, melting or semi-melting, juicy, almost free from grit; juice abundant, 
saccharine, acidulous, more or less perfumed with anis; Jan. to Apr. 
Swan Egg. 1. Langley Pomona 132, Pl. LXIV. 1729. 
An English variety recommended by Lindley as suitable in the Highlands of Scotland. 
Fruit medium, globular-ovate; skin smooth, yellowish-green on the shaded side and clear 
brownish-red on the cheek exposed to the sun and covered with pale brown-russet; flesh 
yellowish-white, tender, very juicy, with a sweet and piquant flavor and musky aroma; 
good; Oct. 
Sweater. 1. Parkinson Par. Ter. 593. 1629. 
“The Sweater is somewhat like the Windsor, for colour and bigeness but nothing: 
neare of so good a taste.” 
