White Star. 1. Spring Hill Nurs. Cat. 10, fig. 1921.
Tree reported as hardy, productive and fruit as of the size of Bartlett, keeping until May and June, and good for dessert.
Whitfield. 1. Cultivator 66. 1839. 2. Mag. Hort. 16:296. 1850.
Placed on the list of Rejected Fruits by the second Congress of Fruit Growers in 1850. Tree a good bearer. Fruit medium, oblong-obovate, yellowish-brown, buttery, very good; Oct. and Nov.
Wiest. 1. Mag. Hort. 18:492. 1852. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 882. 1869.
Reported from Pennsylvania in 1852. Tree vigorous, an early bearer, inclined to be alternate. Fruit medium or below, roundish-obovate, green, shaded with dull red and sprinkled with green and gray dots; stem rather stout, medium in length; calyx small, closed; lobes connivent; flesh whitish-green, juicy, melting, subacid; good; Sept.
Wilbur. 1. Mag. Hort. 10:211. 1844. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 882. 1869.
Early Wilbur. 3. Mass. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 4. 1843.
The original tree, which was found growing wild in a piece of mowing land on the farm of D. Wilbur, Jr., in Somerset, Mass., was said in 1844 to be 66 years old. Shoots slender, light olive-brown. Fruit below medium, roundish-obovate, dull green, becoming pale yellow, slightly netted and patched with russet, and thickly sprinkled with russet dots; stem small, set in a small cavity; calyx open; segments long; basin small; flesh yellowish, juicy, melting, slightly astringent; good; Sept.
Wilde Filzbirne. 1. Dochnahl Führ. Obstkunde 2:1. 1856.