The pears of New York

by U. P. Hedrick

Calhoun. 1. Mass. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 5. 1843. 2. Mag. Hort. 11:252. 1845.

Raised by Governor Edwards, New Haven, Conn., and submitted by him to the Massachusetts Horticultural Society in 1843. Fruit medium, globular, obliquely oblate, yellowish, shaded with dull crimson, russetted; flesh white, coarse, granular, buttery, melting, pleasant; good; Oct.

Caliorosa. 1. Mag. Hort. 18:151. 1852.

Described among new varieties of fruits. Fruit large, pyriform, greenish-yellow, with brown specks; not juicy, indifferent.

Calixte Mignot. 1. Guide Prat. 88. 1895.

Fruit large, pyriform, greenish, dotted with russet, passing to yellow at maturity; flesh very fine, melting, buttery, juicy; first; Oct. and Nov.

Calvillebirne. 1. Dochnahl Führ. Obstkunde 2:72. 1856.

Originated by Van Mons, 1825. Fruit medium, obovate-conic, light green changing to lemon-yellow, washed with red on the sun-exposed side; flesh fine, granular, sweet, juicy, melting, vinous and musky; good; Feb. and Mar.

Calvin. 1. Ragan Nom. Pear, B. P. I. Bul. 126:71. 1908.

Originated by Calvin Throop in Washington, U. S. A. Fruit medium, ovate-pyriform yellow, blushed and striped; flesh buttery, juicy, melting; good; medium.