Zapfenbirn. 1. Christ Handb. 559. 1817.
Tree large, very productive. Fruit long-acute-pyriform, yellow, finely dotted; flesh breaking, not juicy, musky; used for drying and for cooking; early winter.
Zarskaja. 1. Ia. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 61. 1880.
Reported by J. L. Budd to be a Russian variety which has gritty thorn-like wood and which therefore does not unite well when grafted upon apple stock.
Zénon. 1. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 302. 1884. 2. Guide Prat. 62. 1895.
Of European origin, first reported in 1884. Tree moderately vigorous, producing excellent fruit upon quince stock. Fruit medium, of the form of White Doyenné; flesh very fine, juicy, sweet, agreeable, slightly aromatic, granular near the core; first; end of autumn.
Zéphirin Grégoire. 1. Horticulturist 9:78, fig. 1854. 2. Ann. Pom. Belge 3:79, fig. 1855. 3. Bunyard Handb. Hardy Fr. 205. 1920.
M. Grégoire, pomologist, Jodoigne, Bel., raised this variety supposedly from seeds of Passe Colmar about 1831. Tree pyramidal, vigorous, very productive, succeeds best upon pear stock; young wood smooth, light olive-yellow-brown. Fruit medium to above, roundish-obovate, pale greenish-yellow, becoming uniform pale waxen-yellow, covered with patches of russet and many green and gray dots, often reddish in the sun; stem medium in length, fleshy, very fleshy at insertion, set obliquely without depression; calyx small, open, set in a slight depression; lobes long; flesh yellowish-white, buttery, melting, juicy, rich, sugary, vinous, highly aromatic; good to very good; Nov. to Feb.
Zéphirin Louis. 1. Ann. Pom. Belge 4:95, fig. 1856. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 886. 1869.