Muscat Fleuri d'Ete
PearMuscat Fleuri d'Ete
Origin / History
Known at Orleans at the end of the sixteenth century under the name Muscat à longue queue. Described by Duhamel in Traité des arbres fruitiers, volume 2, page 121 (1768). Figured and described by Leroy in Dictionnaire de pomologie, volume 2, page 441, figure 1 (1869).
Tree
Not described in source.
Fruit
Size: Fruit small.
Form: Globular-turbinate or turbinate slightly ovate.
Stem: Not described in source.
Cavity: Not described in source.
Calyx: Not described in source.
Basin: Not described in source.
Skin: Ground color olive-yellow, washed with red-brown on the cheek next the sun.
Dots: Finely dotted with fawn.
Flesh and flavor: Flesh yellowish, coarse, semi-breaking, juicy, saccharine, acidulous, musky. Quality second.
Core and seeds: Not described in source.
Season
Ripens end of July.
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 Fleuri d'Ete.
- Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:121. 1768. 2. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:441, fig. 1869.
Known at Orleans at the end of the sixteenth century under the name Muscat à longue queue. Fruit small, globular-turbinate or turbinate slightly ovate, olive-yellow finely dotted with fawn and washed with red-brown on the cheek next the sun; flesh yellowish, coarse, semi-breaking, juicy, saccharine, acidulous, musky; second; end of July.