Aqueusede Meiningen.. 1. Mas Pom. Gen. 4:77, fig. 231. 1879.
This variety is cultivated in the neighborhood of Meiningen, central Germany, but its origin appears to be unknown. Fruit medium or nearly medium, globular, turbinate, very regular in contour; skin thick, very bright green sprinkled with numerous small dots of a darker shade, changing at maturity to pale yellow and more golden on the side exposed to the sun; flesh whitish, coarse, melting, fairly juicy, saccharine and only slightly perfumed; third; Sept.
Arabella. 1. Dochnahl Führ. Obstkunde 2:134. 1856.
A seedling from Van Mons, 1852. Fruit below medium, pale green, slightly rough, much dotted with greenish cinnamon-russet; flesh whitish, very fine, sweet, vinous; first for dessert; Sept. and Oct.
Arbre Courbé. 1. Gard. Chron. 68. 1848. 2. Pom. France 2:No. 59, Pl. 59. 1864.
Krummholzige Schmalzbirne. 3. Dochnahl Führ. Obstkunde 2:67. 1856.
Bivort, successor of Van Mons in the Society’s gardens at Louvain, stated that this variety was gained by Van Mons about 1830. Fruit large, oblong-obtuse-pyriform; skin rough to the touch, being considerably covered with rough, scaly russet; color bright yellow or greenish-yellow, freely dotted with russet spots; flesh white, rather fine, melting, juicy, gritty around the core; a dessert pear, but hardly first-rate; Sept. and Oct.
Archduke of Austria. 1. Mag. Hort. 3:50. 1837.
Manning in the Pomological Notices in the Magazine of Horticulture said: “This tree bears well every year; the fruit is handsome, but very dry and of inferior quality. Ripe in September. It may prove to have been received under a wrong name.”
Archiduc Charles. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 1:153, fig. 1867.