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Muscat Allemand d'Automne

Pear

Muscat Allemand d'Automne

Origin and History

Found in the Horticultural Society's Garden at Angers, France, in 1833. Origin uncertain, but the name indicates that it came from Germany.

Tree

Not described in source.

Fruit

Size and Form: Medium, and sometimes below medium. Form rather variable, ranging from long-pyriform, slightly obtuse and regular in contour, to irregular-ovate and strongly bossed.

Skin: Somber yellow, dotted with clear gray, extensively washed with russet, and vermilioned on the side exposed to the sun.

Flesh and Flavor: White, semi-fine, melting, rather granular, watery. Juice abundant and saccharine, vinous, musky, but almost always marred by too great an acidity. Quality: second.

Season

October.

Uses

Not described in source.

Subtypes and Variants

Not described in source.

Other

Not described in source.


Sources:

  1. Leroy, Dict. Pom. 2:437, fig. 1869
  2. Mathieu, Nam. Pom. 256, 1889

Book Sources

Described in 1 period pomological work

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Muscat Allemand d'Automne.

  1. 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.

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