Moorfowl Egg. 1. Lindley Guide Orch. Gard. 361. 1831.
Muirfowl Egg. 2. Hogg Fruit Man. 619. 1884.
An old Scotch dessert pear partaking somewhat of the character of Swan Egg. Fruit below medium, globular, dull green changing to yellow-green, mottled with red next the sun, and thickly strewed with pale brown-russety dots; flesh yellowish, semi-buttery, tender, sweet and with a slight perfume; Oct.
Morel. 1. Mag. Hort. 21:151. 1855. 2. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:434, fig. 1869.
Propagated by Alexandre Bivort, successor of Van Mons, and can be traced earlier than 1843. Fruit below medium or small, ovate, sensibly hexagonal, flattened at either extremity, and one side usually more enlarged than the other, yellowish-green, dotted and marbled with russet; flesh yellowish, fine, breaking, rather granular at the center; juice abundant, wanting in sweetness, insipid and of a very unpleasant astringency; second, but good only for cooking; Apr.
Morgan. 1. Horticulturist 14:250, fig. 1859. 2. Mag. Hort. 25:541. 1859.
Originated on the farm of a Mr. Morgan in New Hanover County, North Carolina. Fruit large, oblate varying to obtuse-pyriform, greenish-yellow, speckled with gray-russet intermingled with some tracery of the same; flesh white, a little gritty, juicy, sweet, slightly vinous; very good, nearly best; Oct.
Morley. 1. Parkinson Par. Ter. 593. 1629.
Mentioned in Parkinson’s list of orchard pears as a “very good peare, like in forme and colour unto the Windsor but somewhat grayer.”
Morosovskaja. 1. Ia. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 61. 1880.