Cambaceres

Pear

Cambaceres (Pear)

Origin and History

Distributed by Charles Baltet, Troyes, France, about 1861. No specification of origin is provided in the source. Referenced in Leroy's Dictionnaire de Pomologie (1867).

Tree

Not described in source.

Fruit

Medium size. Form obtuse-pyriform, with one side generally more swelled than the other. Skin golden yellow, dotted and marbled with russet. Flesh whitish, semi-fine, and melting. Juice very abundant and very sweet, refreshingly acidulous, with a delicate aroma.

Season

October.

Uses

Dessert fruit. Rated as a first-class variety.

Source: U.P. Hedrick, The Pears of New York (1921), referencing Leroy, Dictionnaire de Pomologie 1:523, fig. (1867).

Book Sources

Described in 1 period pomological work

Hedrick, The Pears of New York (1921)

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CAMBACERES.

Leroy Dict. Pom. 1:523, fig. 1867.

Distributed by Charles Baltet, Troyes, Fr., about 1861, without any specification of origin.

Fruit medium, obtuse-pyriform, one side generally more swelled than the other, golden yellow, dotted and marbled with russet; flesh whitish, semi-fine, melting; juice very abundant and very sweet, refreshingly acidulous, with a delicate aroma; first; Oct.

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