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more spreading. Fruit medium, usually turbinate, light yellowish-green, covered with 
numerous fine dots, flaked with russet around stem and calyx; calyx small, open; stem 
long, same color as the fruit and continuous with it; flesh white, rather fine-grained, juicy, 
sweet; Oct. 
Weisse Hangelbirne. 1. Loéschnig Mostbirnen 70, fig. 1913. 
A perry pear probably of Austrian origin. Tree vigorous, broadly pyramidal, large, 
a late but regular and heavy bearer. Fruit small, round, greenish-yellow, covered with 
numerous fine, brown-russet dots and small russet splotches; calyx small, open; stem 
short, inserted without depression; flesh pure white, granular, very juicy, slightly acid; Oct. 
Weisse Kochbirne. 1. Léschnig Mostbirnen 102, fig. 10913. 
A perry pear of unknown origin. Tree pyramidal, not a dependable bearer. Fruit 
medium to above, globular, light-yellow, covered with numerous russet dots; calyx open, 
set in a narrow, abrupt basin; stem medium, brown; flesh pure white, slightly granular, 
very juicy, pleasantly sweet; Oct. 
Weisse Pelzbirne. 1. Loschnig Mostbirnen 144, fig. 1913. 
A perry pear of Austria. Tree moderately vigorous, compact, an early and regular 
bearer. Fruit medium, variable, turbinate, greenish-yellow to yellowish-white, heavily 
dotted and splotched with russet, especially about stem and calyx, often marked with 
scab spots; calyx open; stem medium, strong, set with little or no depression; flesh yellowish. 
white, slightly granular, juicy, sweetish, sometimes slightly bitter; Sept. and Oct. 
Welbeck Bergamot. 1. Mass. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 89. 1845. 2. Hogg Fruit Man. 663. 1884. 
Bergamotie Welbeck. 3. Mas Pom. Gen. 5:87, fig. 332. 1880. 
Fruit above medium, roundish, uneven in outline, bossed about the stalk, smooth, 
shining, lemon-yellow, thickly sprinkled with large russet specks, blushed with light crimson 
on side next the sun; calyx small, open, set in a shallow depression; stem medium, inserted 
in an uneven cavity; flesh white, rather coarse-grained, half-melting, very juicy, sugary, 
without flavor; inferior; Oct. and Nov. 
Wellington. 1. Mass. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 43. 1864. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 879. 18609. 
This, with other seedlings, was imported from France about 1854 by A. Wellington, 
Braintree, Mass. It was exhibited before the Massachusetts Horticultural Society in 
1864. It may be that there is a second Wellington pear, or even a third, for in 1852 there 
was exhibited before the Massachusetts Horticultural Society ‘‘ Wellington, (two varieties).”’ 
A description of a Wellington pear is given in the Magazine of Horticulture of 
the following year, while in 1854 the American Pomological Society included 
a variety of similar name in its list of rejected fruits. At all events, the pear 
herein described is the one now known as Wellington. Fruit large, similar in shape to 
Beurré d’Anjou, but longer, yellow, clouded with green; calyx small, open, with short, 
stiff, slightly incurved lobes, basin shallow; stem very short, set in a slight cavity; flesh 
yellowish-white, somewhat coarse, juicy, melting, sweet, with a peculiar “ confectionery ” 
flavor or aroma; Nov. 
Welsche Bratbirne. 1. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 2:2. 1856. 2. Léschnig Mostbirnen 
26; fig. 1913. 
A perry pear of first rank which is said to have originated in Wiarttemberg about 
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