Hunt Connecticut. 1. Mag. Hort. 12:305. 1846. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 575. 1857.
An American cooking pear. Rejected by the American Pomological Society in 1854. Fruit medium, oblate, yellowish-green, coarse, dry, and sweet.
Huntington. 1. Mag. Hort. 23:111, fig. 4. 1857. 2. Mas Le Verger 2:155, fig. 76. 1866-73.
A wilding found by James Huntington, New Rochelle, N. Y. In 1857 it was considered to be 20 or 30 years old. Fruit under medium, globular-obovate, yellow, with numerous russet dots and sometimes a red cheek; flesh fine texture, buttery, slightly vinous, with a delicate aroma; very good; Sept.
Hurbain d’Hiver. 1. Hogg Fruit Man. 594. 1884.
Fruit small, Bergamot-shaped, even and handsome in outline, fine golden yellow in the shade, strewed and mottled with patches of thin cinnamon-colored russet, with a patch of russet around the stalk, washed with bright red on the side next the sun; flesh yellowish, melting, rather coarse, juicy, sweet, without much perfume; second; Nov.
Hussein Armudi. 1. Hogg Fruit Man. 594. 1884.
An oriental pear, published in 1832. Fruit below medium, obovate, smooth, bright green at first changing to greenish-yellow, strewed with russety dots of brown and some traces of russet; flesh whitish, gritty at core, tender, melting, very juicy, with a rich, vinous, sweet flavor; first for table; Sept.
Hutcherson. 1. Ragan Nom. Pear, B. P. I. Bul. 126:148. 1908.
Reported in the experimental orchard at Agassiz, B. C., in 1900. Fruit medium, obtuse-pyriform, greenish-yellow; flesh melting, juicy, sweet; mid-season.