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Louis Dupont

Pear

Louis Dupont

Origin/History

A foreign variety, cited by Elliott from the Annales de Pomologie (An. Pom.), indicating European — likely Belgian or French — origin. No further history is given in the sources.

Tree

Vigorous and beautiful; reported to promise good fertility. (Elliott only; Thomas does not describe the tree.)

Fruit

Size: Elliott describes the fruit as "sufficiently large"; Thomas gives it as medium. These assessments are in mild tension and may reflect different individual specimens or stocks.

Form: Elliott notes the form is sometimes in the shape of a Doyenné, but ordinarily longer and more turbinate. Thomas describes the form as obovate.

Stem: Not described in source.

Cavity: Not described in source.

Calyx: Not described in source.

Basin: Not described in source.

Skin: Smooth; color dull green, passing to yellow at maturity; strongly shaded with fawn russet; sometimes striped and marbled. (Elliott, with detail; Thomas confirms the green-to-yellow transition.)

Flesh and Flavor: White, half fine, melting, juicy, sweet, and perfumed. Rated a fruit of first quality. (Both sources agree on the melting, juicy, sweet, and perfumed character; white color and "half fine" texture from Elliott only.)

Core/Seeds: Not described in source.

Season

Ripens towards the end of October. (Elliott specifies late October; Thomas gives October generally.)

Uses

Not described in source.

Subtypes/Variants

Not described in source.

Book Sources

Described in 2 period pomological works

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Louis Dupont.

Foreign. Tree, vigorous and beautiful, promises to be fertile. Fruit, sufficiently large, sometimes in the form of Doyenne, but ordinarily longer and more turbinate; skin, smooth, dull green, passing to yellow at maturity, strongly shaded with fawn russet, sometimes striped and marbled; flesh, white, half fine, melting, juicy, sweet, and perfumed. A fruit of first quality, ripening towards the end of October. (An. Pom.)

— F.R. Elliott, The Western Fruit Book (1865)

Louis Dupont. Medium, obovate, green becoming yellow; melting, juicy, sweet, perfumed. October.

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