=Auguste Royer.= =1.= _Ann. Pom. Belge_ =3=:11, fig. 1855. =2.= Leroy _Dict. Pom._ =1=:168, fig. 1867. Raised by Van Mons and when brought under the notice of the royal Commission of Pomology in 1853 it was given the name of the President of the Commission. Fruit medium, obovate-obtuse-pyriform, one side being habitually more swelled out than the other; color dull yellow, dotted with gray, and almost entirely covered with fawn; flesh whitish, fine, melting, juicy, gritty around the core, sugary, acid, with pleasant perfume; first; Nov. Tree very vigorous. =Augustine.= =1.= Dochnahl _Führ. Obstkunde_ =2=:110. 1856. =2.= Mas _Le Verger_ =2=:189, fig. 93. 1866-73. Originated by Van Mons, 1823. Fruit medium, obovate-obtuse-pyriform, light green changing to yellowish-green, blushed with rose on the side next the sun, dotted with gray-green specks; flesh nearly white, slightly veined with yellow, fine, melting, full of sweet juice, delicately perfumed and refreshing; good; early Aug. =Augustine Lelieur.= =1.= Leroy _Dict. Pom._ =1=:169, fig. 1867. =2.= Mas _Pom. Gen._ =5=:43, fig. 310. 1880. This variety is considered to be of Belgian origin. Leroy received it from the garden of the Society of Van Mons, Louvain, in 1854, and Mas received it at Bourg from a nurseryman at Wetteren, East Flanders, in 1859. Fruit above medium, oblong-obovate-pyriform, a little swelled, bossed, stalk bearing spines and implanted obliquely, greenish-yellow, russet and brown spots, stripes of fawn around the stalk; flesh white, fine, melting, gritty, sufficiently juicy, sugary, acid and delicate in flavor; first; Oct. and Nov. =Augustus Dana.= =1.= Downing _Fr. Trees Am._ 663. 1869. Originated by Francis Dana of Boston, Mass. Fruit medium to rather large, globular-obtuse and varying from acute-pyriform to obtuse-pyriform, yellow, russeted; flesh whitish, juicy, melting, sweet, slightly aromatic; first; Oct. =Aurate.= =1.= Duhamel _Trait. Arb. Fr._ =2=:122, Pl. III. 1768. =2.= Dochnahl _Führ. Obstkunde_ =2=:26. 1856. This ancient French pear appeared under the name _Muscat de Nancy_ in Le Lectier's _Catalogue de son verger et plant_ in 1628, and was sold in Nancy over 300 years ago. It is extensively grown in Germany in the valleys of the Rhine and in the plains of Coblenz and Mayence under the name of _Petit-Muscat rouge_, _Muscat d'été_, _Goldbirne_, etc. Fruit small, growing in clusters, turbinate, ventriculous, obtuse, regular in contour, dark green at first, dotted with fawn, streaked with brownish-red in the cavity and washed with rose where exposed to the sun; flesh yellowish-white, semi-fine and semi-melting, juicy, generally gritty, saccharine, vinous, delicately musky; first; late Aug. =Auray.= =1.= Leroy _Dict. Pom._ =1=:171, fig. 1867.