THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 585 
green, speckled with russet; flesh gritty near the center, whitish-yellow, sweet, musky, 
buttery, melting, aromatic: first for all purposes; Jan. to Mar. 
Witte Princesse. 1. Knoop Pomologie 96, 139, fig. 1771. 
An old pear, probably of French origin. Tree vigorous, productive. Fruit medium 
to above, oblong-pyriform, drawn to a point at the stem; whitish-yellow or whitish-green, 
dotted with pale brown dots and occasionally patched here and there with brown; stem 
medium to above in length; flesh mellow, gritty, agreeably but not highly flavored; Aug. 
and Sept. 
Wolfsbirne. 1. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 2:2. 1856. 2. Léschnig Mostbirnen 104, 
fig. 1913. 
A perry pear common to Wiirttemberg from an early date. Tree medium vigorous, 
large, roundish, a late but good bearer. Fruit medium, roundish, yellow, covered with 
russet dots, devoid of red; calyx large, open; stem very long, set obliquely without depression; 
flesh yellowish-white, firm, acid; Oct. 
Woodbridge Seckel. 1. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 121. 1860. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 
885. 1869. 
In 1860 a Mr. Woodbridge, Detroit, Mich., exhibited a seedling known as No. 2 before 
the Fruit Committee of the American Pomological Society. This seedling was subse- 
quently named Woodbridge Seckel. Tree.moderately vigorous. Fruit small, pyriform, 
pale yellow, shaded and marbled with crimson in the sun, thickly sprinkled with brown 
and crimson dots; stem long, slender; calyx open; flesh yellowish, juicy, melting, sweet, 
vinous; very good, but rapidly decays at the core; Sept. 
Woodstock. 1. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 201. 1856. 2. Elliott Fr. Book 416. 1859. 
Said to have originated at Woodstock, Vt., and first reported about 1856. Tree 
a moderate grower, very productive; young wood olive-brown. Fruit medium to below, 
roundish-obtuse to obovate-pyriform, pale yellow, netted and patched, and thickly 
sprinkled with russet dots; stem long, rather slender, inserted in a small cavity, often by 
a lip; calyx large, open, placed in a rather deep, abrupt basin; lobes long, slender, 
persistent; flesh white, juicy, melting, sweet, pleasant, slightly musky; good to very 
good; Sept. 
Worden Meadow. 1. Cultivator N. 5. 2:340. 1845. 
Schuyler Worden, who originated the Worden grape, stated in 1845 that he had raised 
this pear in Oswego, N. Y., from grafts given him by an old countryman. Tree vigorous, 
productive. Fruit medium to large, shape variable and surface uneven; skin yellow at 
maturity; flesh fine-grained, melting, juicy, sweet, with a musky flavor; ripens about the 
middle of Sept. 
Worlesbirne. 1. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 2:194. 1856. 
A perry pear reported from Wurttemberg about 1830. Tree not vigorous, large, 
long-lived, very productive. Fruit small, oval or pyriform, solid bright green, turning 
lemon-yellow, numerously dotted with gray, ‘somewhat flecked with russet; calyx in a 
slight depression; flesh juicy, acid, bitter. 
Wormsley Grange. 1. Kenrick Am. Orch. 187. 1832. 
This is a variety which is said to have been sent to the Hon. John Lowell by Mr. 
