564 THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 
Tollbirne. 1. Léschnig Mostbirnen 214, fig. 1913. 
A very productive perry pear of Europe with fruit notable because of its beautiful 
color. Tree vigorous, upright. Fruit medium, round-obovate, very uniform; skin tough, 
smooth, glossy, green changing to yellow, side next the sun blushed with bright carmine 
and dotted heavily with brown-russet dots, russeted at top and bottom; calyx small, open; 
stem medium long, slender; flesh almost white, juicy, tart; mid-Oct. to Dec. 
Tolstoy. 1. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 135. 1920. 
Originated by N. E. Hansen, Brookings, S. D., from Clapp Favorite x Pyrus ovoidea, 
and introduced by him in 1919. 
Tom Strange. 1. Buckman Fruit Var. in Ex. Orch. 6. 1901. 
This variety is found in the experimental orchard at Farmingdale, Ill, of Benjamin 
Buckman, who writes: ‘‘ The ‘Tom Strange’ pear is a small local variety received from 
a person of that name, not worthy of disseminating under a name and had better be 
dropped.”’ 
Tonkovietka. 1. Mont. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 53. 1882. 
Limbertwig. 2. Ia. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 321. 1885. 
Thintwig. 3. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 59. 1887. 
One of the Russian pears imported by Prof. J. L. Budd from Dr. Regel, Petrograd, 
Russia, about 1879 and known by the Iowa Agricultural College under the numbers 513 and 
14m. Chas. Gibb, Abbottsford, Can., says this is the hardiest pear tree which bears edible 
fruit of which he knows. The name means slender stalk. Tree hardy, fine, productive. 
Fruit medium, conical, yellow, with red on the sunny side; flesh porous; ripens beginning 
of Aug. and keeps until Sept.; commendable for commercial orchards. 
Tonneau. 1. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:237, Pl. LVIII, fig. 5. 1768. 2. Hogg Fruit 
Man. 656. 1884. 
Fassbirne. 3. Christ Handb. 564. 1817. 
This large cooking pear has been confused by Leroy and others with Uvedale 
St. Germain, but Hogg and Mas agree that the two are quite distinct. The French word 
tonneau and the German word fass are both translated ‘‘ cask,” a term which describes 
the shape of this pear very well. Tree vigorous; shoots upright; leaves pubescent, light 
green, young leaves yellowish-green. Fruit very large, oblong-ovate or cask-shaped; skin 
clear yellow; calyx large, open; basin deep, wide; stalk an inch long, straight, woody; 
cavity deep, irregular; flesh very white, rather dry; flavor brisk; more an ornament than 
a dessert fruit; Nov. to Feb. 
Toronto Belle. 1. Ont. Fr. Gr. Assoc. Rpt. 82. 1882. 
“We tested the fruit late in December and found it in grand condition; in quality 
it is equal to Beurré Bosc, and almost identical in form and color. The tree is a slow 
grower but a heavy and regular bearer. It is without doubt the finest winter pear we 
know of, opening, as it does, a new era in the quality of winter pears.” 
Totten Seedling. 1. Mag. Hort. 14:109. 1848. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 868. 1869. 
Raised by Col. Totten, New Haven, Conn. Tree vigorous. Fruit small to medium, 
roundish-pyriform to obovate, pale yellow, slightly tinged with red in the sun; stalk long; 
calyx open; flesh white, sweet, perfumed; Sept. and Oct. 
