Muscat Allemand d'Automne
PearMuscat Allemand d'Automne
Origin / History
Found in the Horticultural Society's Garden at Angers, France, in 1833. Its origin is uncertain, but the name indicates that it came from Germany. Cited in Leroy, Diet. Pom. 2:437, fig. (1869), and Mathieu, Nam. Pom. 256 (1889).
Tree
Not described in source.
Fruit
Size: Fruit medium and sometimes below.
Form: Rather variable in form, from long-pyriform, slightly obtuse and regular in contour, to irregular-ovate and strongly bossed.
Stem: Not described in source.
Cavity: Not described in source.
Calyx: Not described in source.
Basin: Not described in source.
Skin: Somber yellow, dotted with clear gray, extensively washed with russet, and vermilioned on the side exposed to the sun.
Dots: Not described in source.
Flesh and flavor: Flesh white, semi-fine, melting, rather granular, watery. Juice abundant and saccharine, vinous, musky and almost always marred by too great an acidity. Quality second.
Core and seeds: Not described in source.
Season
Listed as October.
Uses
Not described in source.
Subtypes / Variants
Not described in source.
Other
Not described in source.
Book Sources
Described in 1 period pomological work
View original book sources (1)
— U.P. Hedrick, The Pears of New York (1921)Muscat Allemand d'Automne.
- Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:437, fig. 1869. 2. Mathieu Nam. Pom. 256. 1889.
Found in the Horticultural Society's Garden at Angers, Fr., in 1833. Its origin is uncertain but the name indicates that it came from Germany. Fruit medium and sometimes below, rather variable in form, from long-pyriform, slightly obtuse and regular in contour, to irregular-ovate and strongly bossed, somber yellow, dotted with clear gray, extensively washed with russet, and vermilioned on the side exposed to the sun; flesh white, semi-fine, melting, rather granular, watery; juice abundant and saccharine, vinous, musky and almost always marred by too great an acidity; second; Oct.