The pears of New York

by U. P. Hedrick

Doyenné Perrault. 1. Guide Prat. 110. 1876.

Fruit medium, rather oblate, resembling Easter Bergamot with a long stalk; flesh fine, firm, melting; first; winter.

Doyenné Picard. 1. Guide Prat. 93. 1876.

Fruit medium; flesh melting; first; Aug.

Doyenné Rahard. 1. Guide Prat. 91. 1895.

Fruit large or very large; flesh fine, melting, very sweet; Dec. to Jan.

Doyenné de Ramegnies. 1. Gard. Chron. N. S. 20:85. 1883.

Raised by M. Norbert Bouzin of Ramegnies-Chin near Tournai, Bel. Fruit large, turbinate and very symmetrically shaped; olive-brown, russeted; flesh fine, buttery, vinous; Oct. and Nov.

Doyenné Robin. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:81, fig. 1869.