The pears of New York

by U. P. Hedrick

Délisse. 1. Guide Prat. 72. 1895.

Fruit medium, oblong, of even contour, much covered with fawn-russet; flesh fine, melting, very juicy; good; Sept. and Oct.

Delpierre. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:17, fig. 1869. 2. Guide Prat. 70, 252. 1895.

A wilding found in the Canton of Jodoigne, Brabant, Bel. Fruit large, ovate-obtuse-pyriform, wrinkled, thick, olive-green clouded with dark yellow; flesh greenish-white, coarse, semi-melting; juice acid, rather sweet, vinous, abundant; second; Sept.

Delporte Bourgmestre. 1. Guide Prat. 90. 1895.

Fruit rather large, yellowish; first; Mar. and Apr.

Democrat. 1. Mag. Hort. 25:69. 1859. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 734. 1869.

A seedling originated in Pennsylvania and introduced as new in 1859. Fruit medium or below, globular-obovate, greenish-yellow with nettings and patches of russet and dotted with russet and brown spots; flesh semi-melting, juicy, sweet, pleasant good; Sept.

Demorest. 1. Wash. Nurs. Cat. 5. 1921.

Reported as “luscious, larger, later and a better keeper than Bartlett.”