Auguste Royer

Pear

Auguste Royer

Origin/History

Raised by Van Mons. When brought under the notice of the Royal Commission of Pomology in 1853, it was given the name of the President of the Commission (Hedrick). References include Annales de Pomologie Belge 3:11, fig. (1855) and Leroy's Dictionnaire de Pomologie 2:168, fig. (1867).

Tree

Very vigorous (all sources). Productive, and promises to be a valuable orchard fruit (Downing; Thomas).

Fruit

Size: Medium (all sources).

Form: Downing describes the fruit as roundish; Hedrick as obovate-obtuse-pyriform, with one side habitually more swelled out than the other; Thomas as turbinate.

Stem, Cavity, Calyx, Basin: Not described in source.

Skin: Downing describes the ground color as greenish yellow, almost entirely covered with russet-fawn. Hedrick gives the color as dull yellow, dotted with gray, and almost entirely covered with fawn. Thomas describes the skin as russet-fawn, becoming orange — the only source to note an orange blush or shift in color at maturity.

Flesh/Flavor: Flesh whitish (Downing, Hedrick). Downing describes it as half melting, with juice abundant, sugary, and pleasantly perfumed, and rates the quality Good. Hedrick describes the flesh as fine, melting, juicy, gritty around the core, sugary, and acid, with a pleasant perfume, and rates it first quality. Thomas describes it as juicy, rich, and perfumed.

Core/Seeds: Not described in source, though Hedrick notes the flesh is gritty around the core.

Season

Downing gives the season as October; Hedrick and Thomas give November.

Uses

Not described in source.

Subtypes/Variants

Not described in source.

Other

Not described in source.

Book Sources

Described in 3 period pomological works

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AUGUSTE ROYER.

Tree very vigorous and productive, and promises to be a valuable orchard fruit.

Fruit medium, roundish. Skin greenish yellow, covered with russet-fawn. Flesh whitish, half melting, juice abundant, sugary, and pleasantly perfumed. Good. Ripe October.

— A.J. Downing, The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America (1900)

Auguste Royer.

Ann. Pom. Belge 3:11, fig. 1855. 2. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:168, 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.

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

Auguste Royer. Medium, turbinate; skin russet-fawn, becoming orange; juicy, rich, perfumed. November. Vigorous and productive.

— John J. Thomas, The American Fruit Culturist (1903)