Naegelgesbirn. 1. Guide Prat. 80. 1876.
A Rhenish-Prussian perry pear which is exceedingly prolific but produces a perry of inferior quality.
Nain Vert. 1. Gard. Chron. 914. 1860. 2. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:450, fig. 1869. 3. Jour. Hort. N. S. 32:256. 1896.
This strange variety was obtained from seed by M. de Nerbonne, in the commune of Huillé (Maine-et-Loire), Fr., and first fruited in 1839. The tree forms a bush between 3 and 4 feet high; it is remarkable for its dwarf habit, and its erect, thick, fleshy branches, Fruit medium and sometimes larger, globular, irregular, but variable in form; skin thin, slightly rough, yellowish-green, uniformly covered with large gray-russet dots; flesh white, semi-fine and semi-melting, rather dry; juice deficient, sugary, sweet, almost without perfume; third; Oct.
Napa. 1. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 68. 1895.
Originated in California and was introduced by Leonard Coates in 1886. Fruit very large, mid-season.
Naples. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:451, fig. 1869. 2. Hogg Fruit Man. 621. 1884.
This old variety known in France for many centuries and described by Claude Saint-Étienne in 1670 was also known as the Feuille de chêne or Oak leaf. Its name indicates that it came from Italy. Henri Manger said in 1780 that it appeared to him to be identical with the pear Picentia described by Pliny. Fruit medium and often less, turbinate-obtuse much swelled at central circumference, and more or less bossed at both extremities, olive-yellow or bright green at first, changing to a beautiful lemon-yellow, finely dotted with fawn, brownish-red next the sun, changing to bright red as the ground color changes; flesh whitish, semi-fine, semi-breaking, almost free from grit; juice plentiful, sweet and sugary, possessing usually a slight after-taste of anis; second; Jan. to Mar.
Napoleon. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 819. 1869. 2. Bunyard Handb. Hardy Fr. 189. 1920.
Napoleon I. 3. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:453, fig. 1869.