The pears of New York

by U. P. Hedrick

Beurré du Bus. 1. Guide Prat. 86. 1876.

Fruit medium, turbinate, yellow, stained with fawn; flesh buttery, melting, aromatic; first; Dec. and Jan.

Beurré Bymont. 1. Elliott Fr. Book 363. 1859.

Of foreign origin; described by Elliott as “new” in 1859. Fruit above medium, obovate-truncate, russety; flesh juicy, sweet, perfumed; said to be very good to best; Oct. to Dec.

Beurré de Caen. 1. Hogg Fruit Man. 515. 1884.

Fruit large, pyriform, narrow, long, yellow, heavily covered with brown-russet; flesh coarse; inferior; Feb.

Beurré Capiaumont. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 1:330, fig. 1867. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 682. 1869.

A handsome Flemish pear raised from seed by M. Capiaumont, Mons, Bel., in 1787. Fruit medium, long-obtuse-pyriform, clear yellow, with cinnamon-red cheek and strewed with specks and markings of fawn; flesh white, with greenish filaments, fine-grained, buttery, melting; juice abundant, sweet, aromatic; first quality; good for dessert and also for the kitchen; Oct.

Beurré Caty. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 1:331, fig. 1867.