Muscat Fleuri d'Ete
PearMuscat Fleuri d'Ete
Origin and History
Known at Orleans at the end of the sixteenth century under the name Muscat à longue queue.
Tree
Not described in source.
Fruit
Size and Form: Small, globular-turbinate or turbinate slightly ovate.
Skin: Olive-yellow, finely dotted with fawn, washed with red-brown on the cheek next the sun.
Flesh and Flavor: Yellowish, coarse, semi-breaking, juicy, saccharine, acidulous, musky.
Quality: Second.
Season
End of July.
Uses
Not described in source.
Subtypes and Variants
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.