Vineuse. 1. Pom. France 4:No. 148, Pl. 148. 1859.
Vineuse Esperen. 2. Ann. Pom. Belge 7:89, fig. 1859.
Raised by Major Espéren, Mechlin, Bel., and introduced about 1840. Tree vigorous, productive. Fruit medium, pyriform, pale yellowish-green, patched and netted with russet, dotted with many small, brown and green dots; calyx large, open; stem short, fleshy; flesh yellowish-white, half-fine, melting, very juicy, vinous, delicately perfumed; good; Oct.
Vingt-cinquième Anniversaire de Léopold Ier. 1. Ann. Pom. Belge 7:17, fig. 1859. 2. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:742, fig. 901. 1869.
Twenty-fifth Anniversaire de Leopold I. 3. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 869. 1869.
Souvenir de Leopold Ier. 4. Mas Pom. Gen. 7:171, fig. 566. 1881.
Obtained by Xavier Grégoire, Jodoigne, Bel., in 1855. Fruit medium, spherical; skin fine, thin, soft, very pale green sprinkled with small, faint grayish dots, few in number and unequally spaced, changing to jonquil-yellow; flesh very white, fine, semi-melting, only fairly juicy, but saccharine, with a flavor of sweet wine; first; Oct.
Virginale du Mecklembourg. 1. Mas Pom. Gen. 4:43, fig. 214. 1879.
Originated, probably in Mecklenburg, previous to 1864. Tree pyramidal, vigorous, moderately productive. Fruit medium, regularly conic to conic-pyriform, bright yellow, sown with gray dots; calyx large, open; stem rather long, continuous with the base of the fruit; flesh white, half-fine, breaking, rather abundant in a rich sugary juice, agreeably high-flavored; Aug.
Virginie Baltet. 1. Rev. Hort. 546. 1903. 2. Ibid. 92, fig. 1905.