Worden Meadow. 1. Cultivator N. S. 2:340. 1845.
Schuyler Worden, who originated the Worden grape, stated in 1845 that he had raised this pear in Oswego, N. Y., from grafts given him by an old countryman. Tree vigorous, productive. Fruit medium to large, shape variable and surface uneven; skin yellow at maturity; flesh fine-grained, melting, juicy, sweet, with a musky flavor; ripens about the middle of Sept.
Wörlesbirne. 1. Dochnahl Führ. Obstkunde 2:194. 1856.
A perry pear reported from Württemberg about 1830. Tree not vigorous, large, long-lived, very productive. Fruit small, oval or pyriform, solid bright green, turning lemon-yellow, numerously dotted with gray, somewhat flecked with russet; calyx in a slight depression; flesh juicy, acid, bitter.
Wormsley Grange. 1. Kenrick Am. Orch. 187. 1832.
This is a variety which is said to have been sent to the Hon. John Lowell by Mr. Knight with the remarks that it requires to be gathered before it is quite ripe and that it is a variety of first-rate excellence in Herefordshire, Eng. In 1842 it was listed as having been removed from the gardens of the London Horticultural Society because of inferior merit.
Wurzer. 1. Liegel Syst. Anleit. 114. 1825.
Wurzer d’Automne. 2. Mag. Hort. 16:296. 1850. 2. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 240. 1854.
Reported from Belgium about 1821. Tree vigorous, leafy, thorny. Fruit rather large, pyriform, solid green, becoming covered with russet, heavily dotted with reddish-brown; calyx small, set in a shallow basin; stem medium long, fleshy, set in a rather deep cavity; flesh pithy, sweet, vinous; Nov.
Yat. 1. Lindley Guide Orch. Gard. 351. 1831. 2. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:762, fig. 1869.