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Muscat Fleuri d'Ete

Pear

Muscat 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

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Muscat Fleuri d'Ete.

  1. 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.

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