German Rhineland, 1806. Fruit medium or small, globular-turbinate, dark olive-green turning to dull yellowish, dotted, and somewhat blushed with brownish-red; flesh white, fine, cinnamon-flavored, gritty toward center; third for dessert, first for household; Nov.
Oliver Russet. 1. Mag. Hort. 10:212. 1844. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 579. 1857.
Oliver Russet originated about 1832 and was shown before the Massachusetts Horticultural Society in the autumn of 1843 by G. W. Oliver, Lynn, Mass., in whose garden the parent tree was found growing. Fruit medium or below, obovate, obtuse; skin fair cinnamon-russet on a yellow ground, with a blush; flesh yellowish, coarse, melting, juicy without much flavor; Oct.
One-third. 1. Iowa Hort. Soc. Rpt. 219. 1879.
Reported to be growing on the Iowa State College Farm and to have been called One-third, from the fact that it is the third generation from seeds originally sown in Wisconsin.
Oneida. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 823. 1869.
Originated in western New York. Fruit medium or below, globular, pale yellow, partially netted and patched with light russet; flesh white, coarse, juicy, semi-melting, agreeable; good; Sept.
Onion. 1. Mawe-Abercrombie Univ. Gard. Bot. 1778.
La Grosse Oignonette. 2. Brookshaw Pomona 2:Pl. LIII. 1817.
The Onion, or La Grosse Oignonette, is a rare pear and is distinct from Oignonet de Provence. Fruit medium, globular, brown-skinned; flesh sweet, well flavored but rather dry, and when too ripe becomes pithy; Sept.