Howell
Pear
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Howell
Origin / History
Howell is a Connecticut pear, raised from seed by the late Thomas Howell, Esq., of New Haven. The seeds were planted in his garden in that city in 1829 or 1830, and the tree came into bearing in 1842 or 1843; Hedrick's Cyclopedia (1922) gives "about 1830." Mr. Howell's premises adjoined those of the late Gov. Edwards, whose seedling pears had attracted considerable attention. Hovey says it was about the time the Governor's trees began to bear that Mr. Howell, "incited, no doubt, by his neighbor's good example," planted the seeds from which this and several others were raised.
The seeds came from a variety known in New Haven as the Jonah pear. It was a very hard and tough winter fruit, rarely fit for the table, which seldom matures enough to be regarded as a dessert fruit. The Jonah tree stood in the garden with a White Doyenne on one side and a Summer Bon Chretien on the other. Hovey judged Howell "evidently" a natural cross between those two, retaining some characteristics of both. It has the habit and foliage of the Bon Chretien, while in the delicacy and fineness of its flesh and its brisk, vinous flavor it approaches the Doyenne. The book sources place its origin at New Haven, Connecticut (Budd and Hansen give simply Connecticut). Stark Bros. (1910) alone says it originated in New Jersey.
The variety was noticed in the Magazine of Horticulture in 1848 as "Howell's Seedling" and in 1849 as Howell. In 1848 the Massachusetts Horticultural Society exhibited specimens in Faneuil Hall, where they were considered "of the first class and worthy of cultivation in every place where the soil and climate are congenial." In 1856 the American Pomological Society recommended it for general cultivation.
Hovey and Elliott call it recently introduced to notice. Desportes (1856) says it was raised "many years since." Hovey adds that it was not yet very generally cultivated, and judged it "one of our best native pears." He found it "not, perhaps, so exquisite in flavor as some other sorts," but possessed of so many indispensable requisites of a fine fruit that it "must become a general favorite." Desportes calls it "one of the most beautiful in cultivation" and says that, "from the experience of three or four years," it "gives promise of sustaining a high reputation." Budd and Hansen (1914) call it "popular across the continent."
Hedrick (1921) writes that "Howell is everywhere condemned by faint praise. The variety is a little too good to be discarded and not quite good enough to be generally recommended." He finds its characters in tree and fruit "faulty by reason of their mediocrity." He also judges it "preeminently meritorious" in being "probably more often uniform in appearance, quality, and freedom from the ravages of the scab fungus than those of almost any other pear."
Tree
Large, vigorous, a free and strong grower, spreading and open-topped. Hovey calls the tree hardy and quite vigorous, with a good habit. Hedrick finds the trees "not above the average in vigor, healthfulness, hardiness, and fruitfulness."
Hovey calls the habit upright but spreading. The branches are thrown out quite horizontal at first and curve upward at the ends, and the annual shoots are curved and of medium length. Thomas (1903) calls the shoots brown, strong, erect, and ascending.
The trunk is thick. Hedrick gives the branches as stocky and reddish-brown, overspread with gray scarf-skin, with few small lenticels. His branchlets are thick, short, dull reddish-brown, smooth, and glabrous, with a few large, raised lenticels. Hovey gives the wood as brownish olive, dotted with grayish specks, stout and short-jointed, with the old wood grayish brown.
Hovey gives the buds as of medium size, roundish, short, and erect, with large prominent shoulders. Hedrick gives the leaf-buds as large, long, conical, and free. Hovey's flower-buds are of medium size and obovate, with brownish scales. Hedrick's are large, long, conical, rather plump, and free.
Leaves 2 inches long and 1½ inches wide (2¼ by 1¾ in the Cyclopedia). Hovey calls them of medium size, ovate, broadest near the base, shortly pointed, bright green, glossy, finely nerved, wavy, and very finely serrated. Hedrick calls them oval and leathery, with a taper-pointed apex and a finely serrate, hairy margin tipped with very minute glands. The petiole runs from 1 inch (Hedrick; 1¼ in the Cyclopedia) to nearly two inches, rather long and rather slender (Hovey).
Flowers of medium size, with small, roundish, cupped petals (Hovey). They open early and measure 1½ inches across (1¾ in the Cyclopedia). They are borne in dense clusters of 7 to 15 buds (5 to 7 in the Cyclopedia), on pubescent, greenish pedicels 1 to 1⅛ inches long.
Begins to bear rather early and produces good crops; Hedrick says the trees bear early, annually, and abundantly. At Agassiz, British Columbia, where it was planted in spring 1890, it proved a strong grower and a constant bearer. Stark calls it vigorous and productive.
The fruit is clean. Hovey found it remarkable that the fruit should be so fair when that of both supposed parents is subject to spot and crack; in four years he never found a defective pear on the tree. On the quince Hovey had no satisfactory experience, but was inclined to think that, like most American pears, it would not do well on that stock. Hedrick finds it better suited to the middle western states than to the eastern states.
Fruit
Size: Large in most accounts; rather large (Thomas); medium and uniform in size (Hedrick). Measured fruits run 2⅝ to 3 inches long and 2½ to 2¾ inches wide. The mid-century specimens are the longer, about 3 inches by 2½ (Hovey) or 2¾ (Desportes), against Hedrick's 2⅝ by 2½ (2¾ by 2¾ in the Cyclopedia).
Form: Obovate, roundish obovate, wide-obovate, or round-obovate; obtusely pyriform or roundish pyriform, inclining to pyramidal (Hovey). Rather full and broad at the crown, tapering or contracted toward the stem, sometimes with a short obscure neck (Thomas). Regular, symmetrical, uniform in shape. Desportes alone finds the surface "a little irregular, like the Thompson."
Stem: Stem ¾ inch (Cyclopedia) to one inch or more, about an inch in most accounts. Of medium length to rather long, moderately stout to stout or thick, a little fleshy at insertion (Thomas). Hovey and Desportes find it curved or often curved; Hedrick calls it straight. Inserted without depression or scarcely sunk.
Cavity: Very shallow and narrow, often with almost no cavity; obtuse, smooth, symmetrical (Hedrick).
Calyx: Open; small (Hedrick) to rather large (Hovey), medium in Desportes. Segments rather long and partially reflexed (Hovey). Lobes separated at the base, short, narrow, obtuse, with the calyx-tube short, wide, and conical (Hedrick).
Basin: Smooth; obtuse, slightly furrowed, nearly symmetrical (Hedrick). Hovey has the eye little sunk in a very broad basin, and Thomas calls the basin small; Desportes calls it moderately deep and irregular.
Skin: Smooth and fair; dull (Hedrick). Lemon yellow to clear pale yellow or light yellow at maturity; Budd and Hansen call it rich yellow. The sunny side carries a slight tinge, trace, or faint blush of red, occasionally (Desportes) or frequently as a handsome cheek (Thomas). Agassiz calls the cheek reddish. Hedrick adds patches and tracings of russet.
The fruit is called beautiful, exceedingly or remarkably fair, and always perfect. Hedrick alone says the fruits "cannot be praised for attractive appearance."
Dots: Numerous, small, russet ("brownish russet specks," Hovey), regularly sprinkled over the surface, prominent and very conspicuous; Budd and Hansen call them grayish. Thomas alone calls them minute.
Flesh and flavor: Flesh white to yellowish-white, slightly coarse (Hovey) or granular, firm but tender, buttery (Thomas), melting, juicy to very juicy. Flavor rich, brisk to briskly vinous, sprightly, almost vinous to vinous, aromatic, with a pleasant perfume or delicate aroma. Hedrick and Stark call it sweet, Desportes "slightly acidulous." Thomas finds it only "moderately rich" and "somewhat variable in quality."
Hovey rates it "of the first quality." Budd and Hansen, and Hedrick in his technical description, give "very good," and Stark "fine quality." Hedrick's introductory remarks say the fruits "cannot be praised for . . . good quality."
Core and seeds: Core medium (Hovey) to rather large (Hedrick), closed, with clasping core-lines. Seeds long, pointed or acute; rather large (Hovey); plump and frequently abortive (Hedrick). Budd and Hansen note few seeds.
Season
Ripe from late September through October, in mid-autumn (Thomas). Stark gives September and October, and Desportes the first to the fifteenth of October. Hovey says the fruit keeps well.
Uses
Hedrick calls it "a most estimable variety for the home orchard where intensive care cannot be given." It commends itself to amateur growers because the trees bear early, annually, and abundantly. Its spreading tops make the trees desirable orchard inhabitants and handsome dooryard ornamentals. Stark calls it a good shipper that commands a good price.
Subtypes / Variants
Not described in source.
Other
The variety is figured in Thomas (Fig. 716) and in Hedrick's Cyclopedia (Fig. 84). Hedrick (1921) cites a figure in the Magazine of Horticulture (fig. 12, 1849) and a figure in Downing's Fruits and Fruit Trees of America (1857). He also cites plates in Hovey's Fruits of America, Hoffy's North American Pomologist (1860), and Pomologie de la France (1865, No. 105).
Book Sources
Described in 7 period pomological works
Nursery Catalog Sources
Found in 51 catalogs (1849–1926) from Alabama, California, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Washington
- Hovey & Co. , Cambridge , Massachusetts — 1849
- Azell Bowditch (Nursery / Fruit Catalog) , Boston , Massachusetts — 1850
- Felix Gillet , Barren Hill Nursery, Nevada City , California — 1884
- Fancher Creek Nursery , Fresno , California — 1886
- Huntsville Wholesale Nurseries (Jessie S. Moss , Proprietor; W.F. Heikes, Manager), Huntsville , Alabama — 1886
- Felix Gillet , Barren Hill Nursery, Nevada City , California — 1888
- California Nursery Co. , Niles , California — 1889
- Felix Gillet , Barren Hill Nursery, Nevada City , California — 1889
- Felix Gillet , Barren Hill Nursery, Nevada City , California — 1890
- William H. Moon Co. , Morrisville, Bucks County , Pennsylvania — 1890
- Felix Gillet , Barren Hill Nursery, Nevada City , California — 1891
- Missouri Nursery Co. , Louisiana , Missouri — 1891
- Puyallup & Yakima Nurseries , Puyallup, Washington (Lock Box 191) and North Yakima , Washington — 1892
- Glen St. Mary Nurseries (G.L. Taber , Proprietor), Glen St. Mary , Florida — 1893
- Rogers Nursery Co. , Moorestown , New Jersey — 1893
- The Vineland Nurseries (Kelsey & Co. , Proprietors), St. Joseph, Missouri (Office: 13th and Atchison Sts., 2 Blocks East of the Citizens St. Car Line) — 1894
- Woodburn Nurseries , Woodburn, Marion Co. , Oregon — 1894
- Felix Gillet , Barren Hill Nursery, Nevada City , California — 1895
- The Lovett Company , Little Silver , New Jersey — 1896
- Stark Bros. Nurseries & Orchards Co. , Louisiana , Missouri — 1896
- Felix Gillet , Barren Hill Nursery, Nevada City , California — 1897
- Arthur J. Collins & Sons , Moorestown , New Jersey — 1898
- J.V. Cotta (Cotta Nursery) , Carroll County , Illinois — 1898
- Reading Nursery , Jacob W. Manning, Proprietor, Reading , Massachusetts — 1898
- Stark Bros. Nurseries & Orchards Co. , Louisiana , Missouri — 1898
- Brown Brothers Co. , Continental Nurseries, Rochester, NY (also operated from Toronto, Canada) — 1899
- Alabama Nursery Co. , Huntsville , Alabama — 1900
- Central Experimental Farm , Dominion Department of Agriculture, Agassiz, British Columbia (under test; Bulletin No. 3, Second Series) — 1900
- Washington Nursery Co. , Toppenish , Washington — 1901
- Brown Brothers Co. , Continental Nurseries, Rochester, NY (also operated from Toronto, Canada) — 1901
- Mountain Grove Nurseries (Tippin & Moore , Proprietors; Geo. T. Tippin, J. W. Tippin, J. C. Moore), Mountain Grove , Missouri — 1901
- Pacific Nursery Company (W. O. Hudson & A. D. Hudson) , Tangent , Oregon — 1903
- Phoenix Nursery Company (W. E. Rossney , President; Sidney Tuttle, Vice-President), Bloomington , Illinois — 1904
- The Dalles Nurseries , The Dalles , Oregon — 1906
- Stark Bros. Nurseries & Orchards Co. , Louisiana , Missouri — 1906
- J.B. Pilkington , Portland , Oregon — 1907
- Carlton Nursery Co. , Carlton , Oregon — 1909
- Wm. J. Corse (successor to Robert Sinclair / Sinclair Nurseries) , Baltimore , Maryland — 1909
- Washington Nursery Company , Toppenish , Washington — 1909
- C.F. Lansing , Salem , Oregon — 1910
- Stark Bros. Nurseries & Orchards Co. , Louisiana , Missouri — 1910
- Galbraith Nursery Co. (DeWitt Hansen , Pres.-Mgr.), Fairbury , Nebraska — 1911
- Stark Bros. Nurseries & Orchards Co. , Louisiana , Missouri — 1911
- Ballygreen Nurseries , Hanford , Washington — 1912
- Pacific Nursery Company , Portland , Oregon — 1912
- Stark Bros. Nurseries & Orchards Co. , Louisiana , Missouri — 1912
- Vineland Nurseries Company , Clarkston , Washington — 1912
- Washington Nursery Company , Toppenish , Washington — 1912
- Van Holderbeke Nursery Co. , Incorporated, Spokane, Washington (nurseries at Otis Orchards WA, Pasadena WA, Kennewick WA) — 1913
- Oregon Nursery Co. , Orenco , Oregon — 1920
- Hudson's Wholesale Nurseries , Tangent , Oregon — 1926
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— C.M. Hovey, The Fruits of America (1852)THE HOWELL PEAR.
Howell. Magazine of Horticulture, vol xv. p. 69.
The Howell, though of recent introduction to notice, and not yet very generally cultivated, proves to be one of our best native pears; not, perhaps, so exquisite in flavor as some other sorts, but possessing so many of the indispensable requisites of a fine fruit that it must become a general favorite. The tree is hardy, quite vigorous, with a good habit, and the fruit is large, exceedingly fair, always perfect, and of the first quality.
The Howell is a Connecticut pear, and was raised from seed by the late Thomas Howell, Esq., of New Haven. The seeds were planted in his garden in that city, in 1829 or '30, and the tree came into bearing in 1842 or '43. Mr. Howell's premises adjoined those of the late Gov. Edwards, whose seedling pears have attracted considerable attention; and it was about the time that the Governor's trees began to bear fruit, that Mr. Howell, incited, no doubt, by his neighbor's good example, planted the seeds from which this and several others were raised.
The seeds planted by Mr. Howell were taken from a variety known in New Haven as the Jonah pear, a very hard and tough winter fruit, rarely fit for the table. The tree stood in his garden, with a White Doyenne on one side, and a Summer Bon Chretien on the other. The Howell evidently is a natural cross between the two, retaining some of the characteristics of both. It has the habit and the foliage of the Bon Chretien; while in the delicacy and fineness of its flesh, and its brisk and vinous flavor, it approaches the Doyenne: but what appears rather remarkable is that it should be such a fair fruit, when that from both of its parents is subject to spot and crack. The experience of four years has never yet enabled us to find a defective pear on the Howell.
The tree is a free and vigorous grower, with a spreading habit, throwing out its branches quite horizontal at first, but curved upwards at the ends. It begins to bear rather early, and produces good crops. Whether it will succeed or not on the quince, we have no satisfactory experience; but we are inclined to think that, like most of our American pears, it will not do well on that stock.
HOWELL PEAR.
Tree. — Vigorous, upright, but spreading in habit, with the annual shoots curved, of medium length.
Wood. — Brownish olive, dotted with grayish specks, stout and short-jointed; old wood, grayish brown; buds, medium size, roundish, short, erect, with large prominent shoulders: Flower-buds, medium size, obovate, with brownish scales.
Leaves. — Medium size, ovate, broadest near the base, shortly pointed, bright green, glossy, finely nerved, wavy, and very finely serrated; petioles, rather long, nearly two inches in length, rather slender.
Flowers. — Medium size; petals, small, roundish, cupped.
Fruit. — Large, about three inches long, and two and a half in diameter: Form, obovate, inclining to pyramidal, regular, rather full and broad at the crown, and tapering to the stem: Skin, fair, smooth, lemon yellow when mature, with a slight tinge of blush on the sunny side, and regularly covered with brownish russet specks: Stem, medium length, about an inch long, moderately stout, curved, and inserted without any depression: Eye, rather large, open, and little sunk in a very broad, smooth basin; segments of the calyx, rather long and partially reflexed: Flesh, white, slightly coarse, melting, and juicy: Flavor, rich, brisk, and vinous, with a pleasant perfume: Core, medium size: Seeds, rather large, long and pointed.
Ripe the last of September and beginning of October, and keeps well.
— B. Desportes, The Horticulturist (1856)Howell.—The Howell Pear is one of the most beautiful in cultivation. It was raised from seed by a gentleman of that name, at New-Haven, many years since. From the experience of three or four years, this variety gives promise of sustaining a high reputation. Size—large, three inches high by two and three-fourths broad. Form—obovate, obtuse pyriform, contracted towards the stem, surface a little irregular, like the Thompson. Stem—one inch or more in length, often curved, and set without depression. Calyx—medium size, open, sunk in a moderately deep irregular cavity. Color—at maturity, clear pale yellow, covered with numerous small russet dots, and occasionally with a faint red blush on the sunny side. Flesh—melting and juicy. Flavor—rich, slightly acidulous, with a delicate aroma. Season—ripens from October first to fifteenth.
— F.R. Elliott, The Western Fruit Book (1865)Howell.
American. Native of New Haven, Conn., recently introduced to notice. Fruit, large, obovate pyriform, pale yellow, small russet dots, faint red blush in sun ; stem, often curved, without depression ; calyx, open ; basin, irregular ; flesh, melting, juicy, slightly acidulous, delicate aroma. October.
— John J. Thomas, The American Fruit Culturist (1903)Howell.* Rather large, wide-obovate, sometimes with a short obscure neck; light yellow, frequently with a handsome cheek, dots minute; stalk rather long and stout, a little fleshy at insertion, scarcely sunk; calyx in a small, smooth basin; flesh white, melting, buttery, moderately rich, aromatic, somewhat variable in quality. Tree a strong grower, fruit remarkably fair, mid-autumn. Shoots brown, strong, erect, and ascending. New Haven, Conn. Fig. 716.
— J.L. Budd & N.E. Hansen, American Horticultural Manual, Part II: Systematic Pomology (1914)Howell. — Large, roundish obovate, regular; color rich yellow with traces of red in the sun, and numerous prominent grayish dots; stalk one inch long, stout and set in narrow shallow cavity. Flesh white, juicy, vinous, sprightly, with few seeds, very good. Popular across the continent. Connecticut.
— U.P. Hedrick, The Pears of New York (1921)HOWELL
- Mag. Hort. 15:69, fig. 12. 1849. 2. Hovey Fr. Am. 2:75, Pl. 1851. 3. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 210. 1856. 4. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 510, fig. 1857. 5. Hoffy N. Am. Pom. 1: Pl. 1860. 6. Pom. France 3: No. 105, Pl. 105. 1865.
Howell's Seedling. 7. Mag. Hort. 14:519. 1848.
Howell is everywhere condemned by faint praise. The variety is a little too good to be discarded and not quite good enough to be generally recommended. Its characters in tree and fruit are faulty by reason of their mediocrity. After having said that the trees are not above the average in vigor, healthfulness, hardiness, and fruitfulness, it remains only to be said that their spreading tops make them desirable orchard inhabitants and handsome dooryard ornamentals. The fruits cannot be praised for attractive appearance or good quality, but they are preeminently meritorious in that they are probably more often uniform in appearance, quality, and freedom from the ravages of the scab fungus than those of almost any other pear. These qualities make Howell a most estimable variety for the home orchard where intensive care cannot be given. The variety further commends itself to amateur growers, because the trees bear early, annually, and abundantly. Howell seems to be better suited to the middle western states than to the eastern states.
In 1829 or 1830, Thomas Howell, New Haven, Connecticut, planted in his garden seeds from a variety of pear known locally as the Jonah, a hard and tough winter sort which seldom matures sufficiently to be regarded as a dessert fruit. One of the trees resulting from these seeds came into bearing in 1842 or 1843. Specimens were exhibited in Faneuil Hall by the Massachusetts Horticultural Society in 1848 and were considered to be "of the first class and worthy of cultivation in every place where the soil and climate are congenial." In 1856, the Howell pear was recommended for general cultivation by the American Pomological Society.
Tree large, vigorous, spreading, open-topped; trunk thick; branches stocky, reddish-brown, overspread with gray scarf-skin, with few small lenticels; branchlets thick, short, dull reddish-brown, smooth, glabrous, with a few large, raised lenticels.
Leaf-buds large, long, conical, free. Leaves 2 in. long, 1½ in. wide, oval, leathery; apex taper-pointed; margin finely serrate, hairy, tipped with very minute glands; petiole 1 in. long.
Flower-buds large, long, conical, rather plump, free; flowers open early, 1½ in. across, in dense clusters, from 7 to 15 buds in a cluster; pedicels 1-1⅛ in. long, pubescent, greenish.
Fruit ripe in late September and October; medium in size, 2⅝ in. long, 2½ in. wide, uniform in size and shape, round-obovate, symmetrical; stem 1 in. long, thick, straight; cavity obtuse, very shallow and narrow, often with almost no cavity, smooth, symmetrical; calyx open, small; lobes separated at the base, short, narrow, obtuse; basin obtuse, slightly furrowed, nearly symmetrical; skin smooth, dull; color pale lemon-yellow, marked on the side exposed to the sun with a trace of blush and with patches and tracings of russet; dots many, small, russet, very conspicuous; flesh yellowish-white, firm but tender, granular, melting, very juicy, sweet, with a rich, somewhat brisk, almost vinous flavor, aromatic; quality very good. Core rather large, closed, with clasping core-lines; calyx-tube short, wide, conical; seeds long, plump, acute, frequently abortive.
— U.P. Hedrick, Cyclopedia of Hardy Fruits (1922)HOWELL. Fig. 84. Howell's Seedling. Howell is everywhere condemned with faint praise. After having said that the trees are not above the average in vigor, healthfulness, hardiness, and fruitfulness, it remains only to be said that their spreading tops make them desirable orchard inhabitants and handsome dooryard ornamentals. The fruits cannot be praised for attractive appearance or good quality, but they are meritorious in that they are more often uniform in appearance, quality, and freedom from the ravages of the scab fungus than those of almost any other pear. These qualities make Howell an estimable variety for the home orchard where intensive care cannot be given. The trees bear early, annually, and abundantly. Howell seems to be better suited to the middle western states than to the eastern states. About 1830, Thomas Howell, New Haven, Connecticut, planted pear seeds in his garden; one of the trees resulting from these seeds was named Howell.
Tree large, vigorous, spreading, open-topped; trunk thick; branches stocky, reddish-brown, with few small lenticels. Leaves 2¼ inches long, 1¾ inches wide, oval, leathery; apex taper-pointed; margin finely serrate, hairy, tipped with very minute glands; petiole 1¼ inches long. Flowers open early, 1¾ inches across, in dense clusters, from 5 to 7 buds in a cluster. Fruit ripe in late September-October; medium in size, 2¾ inches long, 2¾ inches wide, uniform in size and shape, round-obovate, symmetrical; stem ¾ inch long, thick, straight; cavity obtuse, very shallow and narrow, often with almost no cavity, smooth, symmetrical; calyx open, small; lobes separated at the base, short, narrow, obtuse; basin obtuse, but slightly furrowed, nearly symmetrical; skin smooth, dull; color pale lemon-yellow marked on the side exposed to the sun with a trace of blush and with patches and tracings of russet; dots many, small, russet, very conspicuous; flesh yellowish-white, firm but tender, granular, melting, very juicy, sweet, with a rich, somewhat brisk, almost vinous flavor, aromatic; quality very good; core rather large, closed, with clasping core-lines; calyx-tube short, wide, conical; seeds long, plump, acute, frequently abortive.
— Central Experimental Farm, Central Experimental Farm, Agassiz BC — Catalogue of Fruit Trees under Test (Bulletin No. 3, 1900) (1900)Planted Spring 1890. Tree a strong grower and a constant bearer. Fruit large, roundish, pyriform. Skin light yellow, with a reddish cheek and sprinkled with russet dots. Flesh white, juicy, melting and briskly vinous. Season October.
— Stark Bros. Nurseries & Orchards Co., Stark Bros. Year Book (1910) (1910)A beautiful, large, pale yellow pear with a red cheek; fine quality; flesh is white, tender, juicy and sweet; vigorous and productive; ripens in September and October. It is a good shipper and commands a good price. Originated in New Jersey.