A seedling, found about 1850 in the gardens of the Society Van Mons, Belgium. Fruit medium, turbinate; skin smooth, bright green changing to lemon-yellow, dotted with fawn and marked with brown-black patches, slightly colored with reddish-brown on the side next the sun; flesh white, semi-fine, melting, full of sugary juice, vinous, well perfumed; first; late Oct. =Adèle Lancelot.= =1.= Leroy _Dict. Pom._ =1=:86, fig. 1867. =2.= Mas _Pom. Gen._ =3=:95, fig. 144. 1878. Alexandre Bivort obtained this pear in 1851 at Jodoigne, Bel. Fruit variable in size but generally above medium, turbinate, swelled, obtuse, greenish-yellow, dotted all over and streaked with russet and often covered with black stains; flesh white, semi-fine, rather soft, melting, gritty at center; juice abundant, sugary, acidulous, with a delicate, buttery flavor; first. =Adèle de Saint-Denis.= =1.= Leroy _Dict. Pom._ =1=:85, fig. 1867. =2.= Hogg _Fruit Man._ 469. 1884. _Adèle._ =3.= Le Bon Jard. 356. 1882. Raised by M. Guéraud, Saint-Denis, near Paris, about 1840. Fruit medium, obtuse-pyriform, greenish-yellow, strongly dotted and marked with fawn-colored russet; flesh yellowish, fine, melting, juicy, rather gritty around core, sugary, acidulous; first; Oct. and Nov. =Admirable. 1.= _Mag. Hort._ =25=:207, fig. 13. 1859. =2.= Downing _Fr. Trees Am_. 655. 1869. Raised by Francis Dana, Boston, Mass., and first exhibited before the Massachusetts Horticultural Society in 1853. Mr. Dana considered it one of his best seedlings. Fruit medium to large, globular-oval, largest diameter in middle, tapering to each end, rather swollen on one side, smooth, fine, yellow at maturity, with a circle of russet at the base of the stem and more or less traced and thickly dotted with russet; flesh yellowish-white, slightly coarse, melting, buttery, with a delicious perfume; good; Sept. and Oct. =Admiral Farragut. 1.= Downing _Fr. Trees Am._ 655. 1869. _Farragut._ =2.= _Mass. Hort. Soc. Rpt._ 44. 1866. Raised by Dr. Shurtleff, Boston, Mass., and fruited first in 1862. Fruit large, pyriform, greenish-yellow, with many dots and mottled with fawn, blushed on the sunny side; flesh fine, melting, subacid, refreshing; good, handsome but rather lacking in quality; late Sept. =Admiral Foote. 1.= _Mass. Hort. Soc. Rpt._ 44. 1866. Originated in Brookline, Mass. First fruited in 1862 or 1863. Fruit large, obovate, green; flesh melting, fine, with juice abundant, exceedingly rich, sweet, vinous; first; Sept. =Adolphe Cachet. 1.= Leroy _Dict. Pom._ =1=:88, fig. 1867. Obtained from seed in the trial grounds of André Leroy, Angers, France, and first fruited in 1864. Fruit medium, turbinate-obtuse, irregular, very bright brilliant yellow, dotted with russet and stained similarly on the side next the sun and around the stem; flesh white, fine, melting, gritty at center, juicy, sugary, acid, fresh, with a delicious savor of musk; first; Aug. and Sept.