626 
Pear-diseases, 110 
-districts in America, minor, 51 
-growing, a comparison of English and American, 
37 
-insects, 117 
-mites, 119 
-orchards, care of, 97; catch crops for, 102; sod 
versus clean culture for, 102; tillage of, 102 
-psylla, 118 
-scab, 114; treatment of, 114 
-slug, 119 
-stocks, notes on, 95 
-thrips, 121 
-trees, characters of, 59; description of leaf-buds 
and leaves of, 61; description of trunk and 
branches of, 60; flower-buds and flowers of, 62; 
age of, 40; setting of, notes on, 101 
-varieties, adaptability of, for dwarfing, 95; 
blight resistant, 112; blooming season of, 88; 
ripening season of, 88 
Pears, canning of, 109; cold storage of, 109; com- 
mercial, leading varieties of, 84; cost of growing, 
110; descriptions of species of, 69; discussion of 
the setting of fruit of, 99; fertilizers for, 98; grad- 
ing of, 108; grafting of, 106; hardy, notes on, 86; 
harvesting and marketing of, 106; home ripening 
of, 109; local market for, 101; methods of planting 
of, 99; mixed varieties of, in orchards, 100; occi- 
dental, description of species of, 69; oriental, 
description of species of, 74; pruning of, 103; self- 
fertile varieties of, 100; self-sterile varieties of, 
100; soils and locations for, 91; wild, 1; wild, 
species of, 2 
Peche (syn. of Peach), 494 
Peck, Thomas R., orig. of Royal, 532 
Pei-li, 494 
Pemberton, 494 
Penderson, 494 
Penderson, Samuel, orig. of Penderson, 494 
Pendleton Early York, 494 
Pengethley, 494 
Penn, 494 
Pennsylvania, 494 
Pepin, 495 
Perpetual, 495 
Perrier, 495 
Perry, William, introd. of Lincoln Coreless, 192 
Pertusati, 495 
Pests, damage to American pears by, 38 
Petersbirne, 495 
Petit-Blanquet, 495 
Petit Catillac, 496 
Petit-Chaumontel, 496 
Petit-Hativeau, 496 
Petit-Muscat, 496 
Petit-Oin, 496 
Petite Bergamotte Jaune d’ Eté (syn. of Kleine gelbe 
Sommermuskatellerbirne), 435 
Petite Charlotte, 497 
Petite Comtesse Palatine (syn. of Kleine Pfalzgrafin) 
436 
THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 
Petite Fondante, 497 
Petite Marguerite, 497 
Petite Muscat Long d’Eté (syn. of Kleine Lange 
Sommer-Muskatellerbirne), 436 
Petite Poive de Pierre (syn. of Petersbirne), 495 
Petite Tournaisienne, 497 
Petite Victorine, 497 
Petre, 497; first variety to originate in America, 51 
Pfaffenbirne, 497 
Pfingstbirne, 498 
Philiberte, 498 
Philipp der Gute (syn. of Philippe-Le-Bon), 498 
Philippe-Le-Bon, 498 
Philippe Couvreur, 498 
Philippe Goes, 498 
Philippot, 498 
Philippot, orig. of Philippot, 498 
Philopena, 498 
Picciola, 498 
Pickering, or Warden pear tree, 44 
Pickering (syn. of Pound), 208 
Pie IX, 498 
Pied-de- Vache (syn. of Kuhfuss), 439 
Pierre Corneille, 499 
Pierre Curie, 499 
Pierre Macé, 499 
Pierre Paternotte, 499 
Pierre Pépin, 499 
Pierre Tourasse, 499 
Pimpe, 499 
Pink-rot of pear, 117 
Pinneo, 499 
Pitmaston, 207 
Pitmaston, William, orig. of Bergamot Seckel, 268 
Pitmaston Duchess (syn. of Pitmaston), 207 
Pitmaston Duchesse d’Angouléme (syn. of Pit- 
maston), 207 
Piton, 500 
Piton, discov. of Piton, 500 
Pitson, 500 
Pius IX (syn. of Pie IX), 498 
Pius X, 500 
Plantagenet, 500 
Planting methods for pears, 99 
Plascart, 500 
Platt, 500 
Platte Honigbirne, 500 
Pliny, medicinal qualities ascribed to pears by, 10; 
mention of pear varieties by, 8; pear character- 
istics given by, 9 
Plutarch, discussion of the pear in Greece by, 4 
Pocahontas, 500 
Péckelbirne, 501 
Poéte Béranger, 501 
Poire d’Abbeville, 501 
Poire d'Amour d'Hiver (syn. of Winterliebesbirne), 
584 
Poire d’Ange de Meiningen, 501 
Poire d'Aunee d’Eté (syn. of Sommeralantbirne), 
548 
Poire d’Avril, 501 
