A seedling of the White Doyenné shown in the Massachusetts Horticultural Society’s rooms in 1874. Fruit full medium size, ovate-pyriform, dull green, with thin russet towards the stem and sometimes sprinkled with red next the sun; flesh rather gritty at core, juicy and rich; very good to best; Dec.
Church. 1. Mag. Hort. 23:112, fig. 5. 1857. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 19. 1869.
Vanilla. 3. Watson Am. Home Gard. 376, fig. 235. 1860.
Reported by Downing to have originated on land belonging to Trinity Church at New Rochelle, N. Y., hence its name; but Dr. Brincklé, in the second reference, says that it was believed to be a seedling raised by an old Huguenot settler, and that the original tree still existed on the premises of L. P. Miller, and was presumed to be nearly 100 years old. In 1859 Dr. Brincklé and Prince and Ferris expressed the opinion that it was identical with Platt’s Bergamot and Mr. Colt thought the Clark pear of Hartford was also the same. Fruit medium, globular-oblate, irregular, green becoming yellow at maturity, with minute dots; flesh fine, very buttery, melting, with a very rich, sweet and highly perfumed flavor; first; Sept.
Chypre. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 1:561, fig. 1867. 2. Hogg Fruit Man. 571. 1884.
Duhamel in 1768, Poiteau in 1848 and Dr. Hogg in 1884 make this pear synonymous with Early Rousselet. Leroy regards it as a separate variety. It is an ancient pear of uncertain origin. It was described by Merlet in 1675 and was cultivated even earlier by Le Lectier in his garden at Orléans. Probably it originated at the beginning of the seventeenth century, but whether it took its name from the Island of Cyprus or the cypress tree seems uncertain. Fruit small, globular-turbinate, bright grayish-green, stained with brownish-red on the side of the sun; flesh dense, rather coarse, semi-breaking; juice abundant, vinous, sugary, with a perfume recalling cinnamon; first as an early pear; July and Aug.
Cincincis. 1. Ohio Hort. Soc. Rpt. 12. 1874-5. 2. Cornell Sta. Bul. 332:451, 479, figs. 149, 154. 1913.
This oriental pear, possibly of French origin, was received from New York by S. F. Smith, Marietta, O., in 1854. It is the parent of numerous seedlings fruited by Mr. Smith. Fruit medium to small, oval, fairly regular, light greenish-russet, with numerous brown dots; skin slightly rough; flesh yellowish-white, juicy, breaking, crisp; devoid of flavor, poor; Oct.
Cincincis Seedling. 1. Cornell Sta. Bul. 332:479. 1913.
Introduced by William Parry and very closely resembles, if it is not identical with, Cincincis. Fruit medium to large, oblong, largest at stem end, tapering to blossom end, smooth, creamy-yellow; flesh tender, crisp, juicy, lacking quality.