Excellente de Moine. 1. Mas Pom. Gen. 5:59, fig. 318. 1880.
Distributed by Burgomaster Rossy of Schönburg, in Moravia, Austria, in 1835. Fruit medium or rather large, globular-ovate, grass-green, dotted with gray-green specks; flesh white, rather greenish especially just under skin, buttery, juicy, delicately perfumed; good; latter half of August.
Excelsior. 1. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 158. 1867. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 759. 1869.
A seedling of Francis Dana, Boston, Mass., raised about 1860. Fruit medium, obovate-obtuse-pyriform, greenish-yellow, with some russet and many brown dots; flesh juicy, melting, sweet, pleasant; good to very good; Sept.
Eyewood. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:149, fig. 1869. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 759. 1869.
Raised from seed by T. A. Knight about 1822 at Downton, Wiltshire, Eng. Fruit medium, globular; skin very thick, greenish-yellow, tinged with brown next the sun, much covered with pale brown-russet and large dots; flesh yellowish, very tender and melting, juicy, sweet, with a sprightly, vinous flavor and fine aroma; first, but sometimes has too little perfume; Oct.
Fall. 1. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 102. 1875.
A natural tree planted at least as early as 1650 by Gov. Prince at Eastham, on Cape Cod. Fruit about the size of a hen’s egg, tapering towards both ends, green, nearly covered with thin russet, of inferior quality. In 1836 it was a flourishing, lofty tree, producing an average of fifteen bushels of fruit.
Fall Beurré d’Arenburg. 1. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 119. 1875. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 3rd App. 175. 1881.
Exhibited by Asahel Foote, Williamstown, Mass., at the Boston meeting of the American Pomological Society in 1875 as one of his seedlings. Fruit medium, globular-oblate, inclining to obtuse-pyriform, pale greenish-yellow, tinged with orange where well exposed, sometimes blushed on the cheek next the sun, slightly patched and netted and much dotted with russet; flesh whitish, rather coarse, juicy, melting, sweet, vinous, musky; very good; Oct.