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Brookline

Pear

Brookline.

i. Mass. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 45. 1866.

A seedling pear fruited by S. A. Shurtleff, Brookline, Mass., in 1862. Fruit above medium, turbinate, brown-russet; flesh sweet, juicy and buttery, with high flavor; very fine; Oct.

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Brookline.

i. Mass. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 45. 1866.

A seedling pear fruited by S. A. Shurtleff, Brookline, Mass., in 1862. Fruit above medium, turbinate, brown-russet; flesh sweet, juicy and buttery, with high flavor; very fine; Oct.

U.P. Hedrick, The Pears of New York (1921)