A seedling from S. A. Shurtleff of Brookline, Mass., which fruited in 1862. Fruit diameter 2¼ inches, short pyriform; skin dark green; flesh white, melting and juicy, with good flavor; great bearer and good market pear; Sept.
Muir Everbearing. 1. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 135. 1920.
Originated with Hal Muir, Bloomfield, Ky., about 1870. Reported as “delicious; August to November.”
Mungo Park. 1. Dochnahl Führ. Obstkunde 2:160, 1856. 2. Guide Prat. 100. 1876.
A seedling of Van Mons named after the celebrated Scotch voyager. Fruit small, turbinate-pyriform or globular-ovate, very pale green sprinkled with fawn dots, very small, numerous, and feebly visible, the basic green passing at maturity to pale whitish-yellow and becoming a little golden on the side of the sun; flesh white, very fine, melting, free from grit, full of sugary juice, sprightly and agreeably perfumed; first; Oct.
Munz Apothekerbirne. 1. Gard. Chron. 3rd Ser. 30:370. 1891.
Presumably German. A medium-sized pear, obovate, oblong, with a stalk rather more than an inch long, continuous with the fruit, yellowish; flesh white; of good flavor; Aug.
Muscadine. 1. Mag. Hort. 1:364. 1835. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 818. 1869.
The original tree is supposed to have grown on the farm of a Dr. Fowler near Newburgh, N. Y., and the pear was introduced to notice by Downing. Fruit medium, globular-obovate, regular in form, pale yellowish-green, thickly sprinkled with brown dots; flesh white, buttery, semi-melting, with an agreeable rich, musky flavor; good to very good, a valuable late summer variety; end of Aug. and beginning of Sept.
Muscat Allemand d’Automne. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:437, fig. 1869. 2. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 256. 1889.