Lacroix

Pear

Lacroix

Origin / History

Published in the Revue Horticole in 1887. Cited as Card. Chron. 3d Ser. 1:442, 1887.

Tree

Not described in source.

Fruit

Size: Fruit medium.

Form: Fruit regular pyriform.

Stem: Not described in source.

Cavity: Not described in source.

Calyx: Not described in source.

Basin: Not described in source.

Skin: Yellow blushed and spotted with red on the exposed side.

Dots: Not described in source.

Flesh and flavor: Flesh white. Flavor said to be like that of Easter Beurré.

Core and seeds: Not described in source.

Season

Dec. and Jan.

Uses

Not described in source.

Subtypes / Variants

Not described in source.

Other

Not described in source.

Book Sources

Described in 1 period pomological work

Hedrick, The Pears of New York (1921)

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Lacroix.

Card. Chron. 3d Ser. 1:442. 1887.

Published in Revue Horticole in 1887. Fruit medium, regular pyriform, yellow blushed and spotted with red on the exposed side; flesh white, flavor said to be like that of Easter Beurré; Dec. and Jan.

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