THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 
Omer- Pacha (syn. of Saint Menin), 537 
One-third, 486 
Oneida, 486 
Onion, 486 
Onondaga, 201 
Ontario, 202 
Orange, 486 
Orange-Bergamot, 486 
Orange de Briel (syn. of Brielsche Pomeranzenbirne), 
319 
Orange County Nurs. Co., introd. of Wilder Sugar, 
580 
Orange d’Hiver, 486 
Orange Mandarine, 486 
Orange Musquée, 487 
Orange pear tree, old, 42 
Orange Rouge, 487 
Orange Tulipée, 487 
Orange de Vienne, 487 
Orchards, pear, care of, 97; catch crops for, 102 
Orchards of mixed varieties of pears, 100 
Ordensbirne, 487 
Orel 15, 487 
Oriental pears, descriptions of species of, 74; influ- 
ence of, on American pear culture, 55 
Orpheline Colmar, 488 
Orpheline d’Enghien (syn. of Beurré d’Arenberg), 
129 
Osband Summer, 488 
Osborne, 488 
Osborne, John, orig. of Osborne, 488 
Osimaya (syn. of Winter), 583 
Oswego Beurré, 488 
Oswego Incomparable, 488 
Ott, 488 
Ott, Samuel, orig. of Ott, 488 
Owen, 488 
Owen, John, orig. of Owen, 488 
Owener Birne, 489 
Oyster-shell scale on pear, 120 
Ozark, 489 
P. Barry, 203 
Pacific states, 
53 
Paddock, 489 
Padres, early growers of pears, 54 
Pailleau, 489 
Pain-et-Vin, 489 
Palmischbirne, 489 
Papeleu, Adrien, orig. of Beurré Payen, 303; Navez 
Peintre, 480 
Paquency (syn. of Payenche), 493 
Paradiesbirne, 489 
Pardee, 489 
Pardee, S. D., orig. of Dickerman, 359; Pardee, 
489 
Parfum d’Aout, 490 
Parfum d’Hiver, 490 
Parfum de Rose, 490 
Parfumé, 490 
Parfumée, 490 
introduction of pear-growing in, 
40 
625 
Parigot, orig. of Appoline, 250; Beurré Bourbon, 
288; Comptesse de Chambord, 347; Doyenné 
Fradin, 367; Eugéne des Nouhes, 379 
Pariset, orig. of varieties, 239, 249, 279, 292, 307, 
329; 344, 453, 471, 490, 536, 543, 544, 562 
Parkinson, discussion of pears by, 32 
Parkinson’s pears known at present, 36 
Parmentier, Andrew, introd. of Surpasse Virgalieu, 
557; orig. of Bergamotte de Stryker, 277 
Parrot, 490 
Parry, William, orig. of Cincincis Seedling, 338 
Parsonage, 490 
Passa-tutti, 490 
Passans du Portugal, 491 
Passe Colmar, 205; parent of Alexandrine Mas, 241; 
Félix Sahut, 381; Wilmington, 582; Zéphirin 
Grégoire, 587 
Passe-Colmar des Belges, 491 
Passe Colmar d’été, 491 
Passe Colmar Francois (syn. of Jean de Witte), 429 
Passe Colmar Musqué, 491 
Passe Crassane, 491; parent of Prince Napoléon, 512 
Passe-Goemans, 491 
Passe Madeleine, 491 
Passe-Tardive, 492 
Pastor, 492 
Pastorale, 492 
Pastorenbirne (syn. of Vicar of Winkfield), 227 
Pater Noster, 492 
Paternotte, Pierre, orig. of Pierre Paternotte, 499 
Patten, Charles G., orig. of Seckel Seedling No. 1, 
543 
Paul Ambre, 492 
Paul Bonamy, 492 
Paul Coppieters, 492 
Paul d’Hoop, 493 
Paul Thielens, 493 
Pauls Birne, 493 
Payen, 493 
Payenche, 493 
Payne, James, discov. of Seneca, 544 
Payton, 493 
Payton, orig. of Payton, 493 
Peach, 494 
Pear, adaptability of the, to soils and locations, 92; 
black mold of the, 117; brown-blotch of the, 116; 
codling moth on the, 118; crown-gall on the, 116; 
descriptive blank of the, opposite 68; fertility of 
the, 99; history of the, 1; leaf-blight of the, 115; 
leaf-spots of the, notes on, 115; oyster-shell scale 
on the, 120; pink-rot of the, 117; San Jose scale 
on the, 117; structural botany of the, 58 
Pear-blight, control of, 113; early occurrence of, in 
America, 51; notes on, III 
-borers, 120 
-breeding, Van Mons’ theory of, 18 
-characteristics of the, unchanged since time of 
Pliny, 9 
-culture, climate adapted to, 85; economic con- 
siderations important to, 94; importance of 
stocks in, 94; notes on, 83; statistics of, 83 
