It is thought that this pear may have originated near the town of Volkmarsen, Ger., prior to 1795. Tree large, vigorous, hardy, very productive. Fruit small, oval, yellow, almost entirely covered with brown, sprinkled with numerous dots of a brighter color; calyx open; flesh half-melting, juicy, piquant, sweetish; Sept.
Von Zugler. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 877. 1869.
Said by Downing in 1869 to be a new Belgian variety. Tree slender, productive. Fruit medium, roundish-acute-pyriform, yellow, nearly covered with cinnamon-russet; stem rather short, inclined in a slight depression by a fleshy lip; calyx small, open; segments short, erect; basin small; flesh white, juicy, melting, sweet, slightly aromatic; very good; Sept.
Voscovoya. 1. Ia. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 320, 323. 1885. 2. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 60, 61. 1887.
Waxy. 3. Ia. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 323. 1885.
A Russian variety introduced by the Iowa Agricultural College from P. J. Tretjakoff, Orel, Russia, about 1883, and said to be “an extra fine pear.” Professor Budd thought it identical with Vosovoya or Waxen.
Vosschanka. 1. Can. Hort. 17:291. 1894.
A variety grown by M. Mitschurin, one of the most celebrated Russian horticulturists, in the Russian Province of Tambow, 53 north latitude. Fruit medium, yellow; “flavor excellent, ripens in the month of August, and keeps till October.”
Wade. 1. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 135. 1920.