584 THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 
by Charles Kessler, Reading, Pa. Fruit medium, roundish, yellow, scarcely “‘ good” in 
quality. 
Winter Popperin. 1. Parkinson Par. Ter. 592. 1629. 
‘very good dry firme peares, somewhat spotted, and brownish on the 
One of two 
outside.” 
Winter Rousselet. 1. Mawe-Abercrombie Univ. Gard. Bot. 1778. 
Rousselet d’Hiver. 3. Leroy Dict. Pom. 22593, fig. 1869. 
An ancient French pear of unknown origin, though it was described by Claude Saint- 
Etienne in 1670 and by Duhamel in the eighteenth century. Fruit small, turbinate, more 
or less obtuse, usually somewhat contracted toward the top, and often depressed on one 
side and mammillate on the other, yellow-green dotted with gray russet and blushed with 
reddish-brown on the face exposed to the sun; flesh white, semi-breaking, watery, rather 
granular, juice abundant, saccharine, rarely having much aroma and sometimes acid; 
second; Feb. and Mar. 
Winter Seckel. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 562. 1857. 
Said to have originated near Fredericksburg, Va., and to have been introduced by 
H. R. Roby. Fruit small, obovate, yellow; with a brownish cheek in sun, patched and 
netted with russet, and covered with many large and brown dots; stem slender; calyx 
large, open; flesh white, a little coarse at core, juicy, half-melting. 
Winter Sweet Sugar. 1. Brookshaw Hort. Reposit. 2:151, Pl. 81. 1823. 
Tree productive. Fruit turbinate, greenish, juicy, sweet, not very richly flavored; 
will keep till March. 
Winter Williams. 1. Garden 67:18. 1905. 
A cross between Bartlett and Glou Morceau shown before the Royal Horticultural 
Society in t905 by Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, England. Fruit said to resemble Glou 
Morceau in shape; skin yellow: flavor like Bartlett; later than Bartlett. 
Winterbirne. 1. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 2:70. 1856. 
Reported from northern Germany about 1773. Fruit medium, turbinate, smooth, 
bright green, dotted with gray; stem long; flesh yellowish, half breaking, sweetish; Dec. 
to Apr. 
Winterliebesbirne. 1. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 301. 1889. 
Poire d'Amour d’Hiver. 2. Mas Pom. Gen. 6:15, fig. 392. 1880. 
This pear is of German origin and bears also the name of Kirschbirnen or Church 
Pear. Fruit small or nearly medium, conic or globular-conic, sometimes short and 
sometimes long; skin thick, firm, rough, water-green with numerous and conspicuous 
brown dots; changing to pale yellow covered over a large area of the side next the sun 
with a vivid currant red on the central part and more brown on the borders; flesh 
white, coarse, breaking, a little gritty around the core, juice sufficient in quantity and 
sweet, vinous and musky; good for kitchen purposes and keeps a long time; Oct. 
and Nov. 
Winterrobine. 1. Christ Handb. 500. 1817. 2. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 2:111. 1856. 
Thuringia, Ger., 1799. Fruit fairly large, ventriculous-conic, obtuse; apex inclined, 
sides unequal, green turning yellow-green, often somewhat blushed, dotted with dark 
