Fruit medium, globular-obtuse-pyriform, somewhat depressed at both stalk and calyx, speckled all over; may be gathered early in September and in season Feb. to Apr.; first class.
Burgoyne. 1. Ragan Nom. Pear, B. P. I. Bul. 126:68. 1908.
Fruit large, oblong-pyriform, greenish-yellow, blushed with russet; flesh melting, juicy, sweet; good; season medium.
Burkett. 1. Ill. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 144. 1880. 2. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 236. 1911.
Reported to the Illinois Horticultural Society in 1880 by C. S. Capps of Mt. Pulaski who described it as a “miserable apology” for a pear, though exempt from blight. It was mentioned in a communication to the American Pomological Society in 1911 by Charles G. Patten, Charles City, Iowa, as a variety which originating in Illinois had resisted blight for a period of forty-five years in South Iowa. It has been suggested that this and Sudduth may be the same.
Burlingame. 1. Mag. Hort. 15:344. 1849. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 711. 1869.
Raised from seeds of pears planted in 1790. In 1830 Dr. S. P. Hildreth, Marietta, Ohio, sent a description of the pear to the Massachusetts Horticultural Society which named it after Mrs. Burlingame of Marietta who had originally saved the seeds. Fruit below medium, globular-oblate, pale yellow, blushed with red on the sun-exposed side and covered with small, russet specks; flesh white, coarse, melting and juicy, rich, sugary, perfumed; Aug. and Sept.
Burnett. 1. Kenrick Am. Orch. 139. 1841. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 712. 1869.
Raised by Joel Burnett, Southborough, Mass., in the early half of the nineteenth century. Fruit large, obtuse-pyriform, pale yellow, with much iron-russet and flushed on side next the sun; flesh greenish-white, rather coarse-grained but rich, musky, juicy, sweet; excellent; Oct. and Nov.
Butt Pear. 1. Hogg Fruit Man. 539. 1884.