A wild pear reported from Belgium about 1800. Fruit small, roundish, greenish, becoming yellowish, dotted with gray; stem long; flesh acid, becoming sweetish; poor; fall and winter. May be used for dwarfing.
Wilde Herrnbirne. 1. Dochnahl Führ. Obstkunde 2:188. 1856.
Reported from Germany about 1804. Tree very large. Fruit medium, broad, bright green becoming yellowish-green, often somewhat blushed on the sunny side, often flecked and patched with russet; dots light gray; stem rather long, inserted by a fleshy protuberance; flesh white, slightly musky, sweet; fair and below; Sept.
Wilde Holzbirne. 1. Dochnahl Führ. Obstkunde 2:196. 1856.
Reported as wild and widely disseminated as early as 1641; its seedlings are said sometimes to be used for stocks. Tree very large and productive. Fruit small, round, green, dotted with light russet; seeds numerous, dark brown; flesh very acid; Oct.
Wilder Sugar. 1. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 135. 1920.
Reported by Orange County Nursery Company, Anaheim, Cal., as “Medium large, greenish yellow shaded brown, excellent quality. Vigorous and productive. August.”
Wilding von Einsiedel. 1. Dochnahl Führ. Obstkunde 2:2. 1856. 2. Löschnig Mostbirnen 182, fig. 1913.
This perry pear, which has also been recommended as a street tree, was reported from Württemberg about 1832. Tree very vigorous, pyramidal, not leafy, very productive. Fruit bluntly conic pyriform, small, greenish-yellow, brownish on side next the sun; covered with characteristic brown to reddish-brown dots, russeted about stem and calyx; calyx half open; stem short, thick; flesh juicy, firm, acid; Oct.