Dallas. 1. Mag. Hort. 11:252. 1845. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 730. 1869.
In 1843 this, one of Governor Edwards’ seedlings raised at New Haven, Conn., was exhibited to the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. Fruit medium, obovate-obtuse-pyriform, dull yellow, thickly interlaced with cinnamon-russet sprinkled with crimson and russet dots; flesh yellowish-white, fine, melting, buttery, juicy, aromatic; good; Oct. to Dec.
Dame. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:1, fig. 1869. 2. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 200. 1869.
For two and a half centuries this variety has been known in the Department of Maine-et-Loire under the name of Dame, though in one district it bore the name of des Buhards. Fruit medium, globular-ovate, mammillate around calyx; skin rough, grass-green, dotted with fawn at each end and sprinkled with gray specks; flesh whitish, semi-fine, tender, semi-melting, gritty; juice sufficient, sweet, acidulous, rather well flavored; third; Sept.
Dame-verte. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:3, fig. 1869. 2. Mas Pom. Gen. 1:139, fig. 70. 1872.
Attributed to Van Mons about the beginning of the nineteenth century. Fruit above medium, obtuse-conic, skin thick, yellowish-olive, sprinkled with green dots changing to bright yellow and on the side of the sun occasionally touched with crimson; flesh yellowish-white, rather coarse, semi-melting, rather gritty at the center, with plenty of sweet juice, acid but rather savory; second; Aug.
Darimont. 1. Lindley Guide Orch. Gard. 369. 1831. 2. Prince Pom. Man. 2:200. 1832.
A Flemish pear new in the early part of the nineteenth century. Fruit medium, oblong, tapering somewhat toward the stalk, yellowish-gray-russet, sprinkled with numerous scabrous specks; flesh white, gritty, melting, with a saccharine, slightly musky and somewhat astringent juice; Sept. and Oct.
Darlington. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 731. 1869.
An American variety; origin unknown. Fruit large, oblate-obtuse-pyriform, pale yellow, some crimson at times on the side of the sun, nettings and patches of russet and russet dots; flesh whitish, coarse, sweet; moderate quality; rots at core; Sept.