580 THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 
White Squash. 1. Hogg Fruit Man. 664. 1884. 
A Herefordshire, Eng., perry pear. Fruit medium, roundish-turbinate, even and 
regular in outline, yellowish-green, strewn with small russety dots, with here and there 
a patch of russet, but always russety round the stalk and the calyx; calyx open, set in a 
saucer-like basin; stem medium, inserted without depression and with a fleshy swelling 
on one side; flesh coarse, crisp, very juicy, harshly astringent. 
White Star. 1. Spring Hill Nurs. Cat. 10, fig. 192t. 
Tree reported as hardy, productive and fruit as of the size of Bartlett, keeping until 
May and June, and good for dessert. 
Whitfield. 1. Cultivator 66. 1839. 2. Mag. Hort. 16:296. 1850. 
Placed on the list of Rejected Fruits by the second Congress of Fruit Growers in 
1850. Tree a good bearer. Fruit medium, oblong-obovate, yellowish-brown, buttery, 
very good; Oct. and Nov. 
Wiest. 1. Mag. Hort. 18:492. 1852. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 882. 1869. 
Reported from Pennsylvania in 1852. Tree vigorous, an early bearer, inclined to 
be alternate. Fruit medium or below, roundish-obovate, green, shaded with dull red 
and sprinkled with green and gray dots; stem rather stout, medium in length; 
calyx small, closed; lobes connivent; flesh whitish-green, juicy, melting, subacid; good; 
Sept. ‘ 
Wilbur. 1. Mag. Hort. to:211. 1844. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 882. 1869. 
Early Wilbur. 3. Mass. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 4. 1843. 
The original tree, which was found growing wild in a piece of mowing land on the 
farm of D. Wilbur, Jr., in Somerset, Mass., was said in 1844 to be 66 yearsold. Shoots 
slender, light olive-brown. Fruit below medium, roundish-obovate, dull green, becoming 
pale yellow, slightly netted and patched with russet, and thickly sprinkled with russet 
dots; stem small, set in a small cavity; calyx open; segments long; basin small; flesh yellowish, 
juicy, melting, slightly astringent; good; Sept. 
Wilde Filzbirne. 1. Dochnahl Puhr. Obstkunde 2:1. 1856. 
A wild pear reported from Belgium about 1800. Fruit small; roundish, greenish, 
becoming yellowish, dotted with gray; stem long; flesh acid, becoming sweetish; poor; 
fall and winter. May be used for dwarfing. 
Wilde Herrnbirne. 1. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 2:188. 1856. 
Reported from Germany about 1804. Tree very large. Fruit medium, broad, 
bright green becoming yellowish-green, often somewhat blushed on the sunny side, often 
flecked and patched with russet; dots light gray; stem rather long, inserted by a fleshy 
protuberance; flesh white, slightly musky, sweet; fair and below; Sept. 
Wilde Holzbirne. 1. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 2:196. 1856. 
Reported as wild and widely disseminated as early as 1641; its seedlings are said 
. sometimes to be used for stocks. Tree very large and productive. Fruit small, round, 
green, dotted with light russet; seeds numerous, dark brown; flesh very acid; Oct. 
Wilder Sugar. 1. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 135. 1920. 
Reported by Orange County Nursery Company, Anaheim, Cal., as ‘‘ Medium large, 
greenish yellow shaded brown, excellent quality. Vigorous and productive. August.” 
