_Union._ =9.= Miller _Gard. Kal._ 31, 54. 1734. =10.= Miller _Gard. Dict._ =2=: Pt. 1. 1807. _Uvedale's St. Germain._ =11.= Lindley _Guide Orch. Gard._ 413. 1831. =12.= _Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt._ 70. 1862. =13.= Hogg _Fruit Man._ 657. 1884. =14.= _Jour. Hort._ 3rd Ser. =13=:465. 1886. =15.= Bunyard _Handb. Hardy Fr._ 202. 1920. _Bruderbirne._ =16.= Dochnahl _Führ. Obstkunde_ =2=:148. 1856. _Winter Bell._ =17.= Watson _Am. Home Gard._ 404, fig. 264. 1859. _Belle Angevine._ =18.= _Gard. Chron._ 979. 1860. =19.= Mas _Le Verger_ =1=:31 bis, fig. 22. 1866-73. =20.= _Gard. Chron._ 138. 1869. =21.= _Guide Prat._ 61, 233. 1876. _Schöne Angevine._ =22.= Mathieu _Nom. Pom._ 279. 1889. Pound is grown in collections for its monstrous fruits, which have few virtues other than large size. The pears not infrequently weigh three pounds, and one is noted in the next paragraph weighing four pounds, nine ounces. The pears are coarse in form, texture and flavor--but one degree better in flavor than the potato-like fruits of Kieffer and even more sappy. The pears keep well and are said to be fairly good for culinary purposes. The trees are unusually satisfactory, because of which the variety should make a good parent from which to breed. The name "Pound" has been applied to a number of varieties, notably Black Worcester, Angora, Verulam, and others. The variety now known as Pound in America is more generally known in Europe as _Belle Angevine_ or _Uvedale's St. Germain_. This sort appears to have been raised by a Dr. Uvedale, who was a schoolmaster at Eltham, England, in 1690. Miller in his Dictionary, in 1724, speaks of him as a Dr. Udal of Enfield, "a curious collector and introducer of many rare exotics, plants and flowers," and Bradley, in 1733, speaks of the pear as "Dr. Udale's great pear, called by some the _Union_ pear." William Robert Prince mentions the Pound pear in 1831 saying that "it often weighs from twenty-five to thirty ounces, and one was exhibited in New Jersey about four years since, weighing forty and a half ounces." In 1870, according to Wickson, a Pound pear sent from Sacramento to the late Marshall P. Wilder, President of the American Pomological Society, weighed four pounds and nine ounces. In 1862, the American Pomological Society added this variety to its fruit-catalog under the name _Uvedale's St. Germain_, but in 1871 changed the name to Pound. The name continued to appear in the Society's catalogs until 1909 when it was dropped. Tree medium in size, upright, dense-topped, hardy, very productive; trunk stocky, shaggy; branches thick, shaggy, zigzag, dull reddish-brown, heavily covered with gray scarf-skin, marked with many large lenticels; branchlets short, with short internodes, brownish-red, mottled with gray scarf-skin, smooth, glabrous, with few small, elongated lenticels.