Specimens of a new variety of Swan Egg pear were sent to the meeting of the London Horticultural Society in 1824 by George and William Tindall, Beverley, Yorkshire, Eng. “It is larger and browner than the Common Swan’s Egg, and equal to it in flavor. It keeps well till the end of January, and sometimes later.”
Tollbirne. 1. Löschnig Mostbirnen 214, fig. 1913.
A very productive perry pear of Europe with fruit notable because of its beautiful color. Tree vigorous, upright. Fruit medium, round-obovate, very uniform; skin tough, smooth, glossy, green changing to yellow, side next the sun blushed with bright carmine and dotted heavily with brown-russet dots, russeted at top and bottom; calyx small, open; stem medium long, slender; flesh almost white, juicy, tart; mid-Oct. to Dec.
Tolstoy. 1. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 135. 1920.
Originated by N. E. Hansen, Brookings, S. D., from Clapp Favorite x Pyrus ovoidea, and introduced by him in 1919.
Tom Strange. 1. Buckman Fruit Var. in Ex. Orch. 6. 1901.
This variety is found in the experimental orchard at Farmingdale, Ill., of Benjamin Buckman, who writes: “The ‘Tom Strange’ pear is a small local variety received from a person of that name, not worthy of disseminating under a name and had better be dropped.”
Tonkovietka. 1. Mont. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 53. 1882.
Limbertwig. 2. Ia. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 321. 1885.