Notaire Minot
PearNotaire Minot
Origin / History
A posthumous gain of Van Mons of only very moderate merit. It fruited in nurseries at Geest-Saint-Rémy, Jodoigne, Belgium, in 1844. It is described in Leroy, Dictionnaire de Pomologie, vol. 2, p. 465, with a figure, in 1869, and in Downing, Fruit and Fruit Trees of America, p. 821, in 1869.
Tree
Not described in source.
Fruit
Size: Medium.
Form: Rather variable in form, but usually irregular ovate-globular or very obtuse-turbinate and ventriculous.
Stem: Not described in source.
Cavity: Not described in source.
Calyx: Not described in source.
Basin: Not described in source.
Skin: Thick and rather rough. Ground color grass-green. Blushed with dark red on the side of the sun.
Dots: Dotted all over with fawn.
Flesh and flavor: Yellowish, semi-fine and semi-melting, very gritty around the core. Juice insufficient, saccharine, aromatic, having a disagreeable astringency. Quality third.
Core and seeds: Not described in source.
Season
Ripens in 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
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— U.P. Hedrick, The Pears of New York (1921)Notaire Minot.
- Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:465, fig. 1869.
- Downing Fr. Trees Am. 821. 1869.
A posthumous gain of Van Mons of only very moderate merit. It fruited in nurseries at Geest-Saint-Rémy, Jodoigne, Bel., in 1844.
Fruit medium, rather variable in form, but usually irregular ovate-globular or very obtuse-turbinate and ventriculous; skin thick and rather rough, grass-green, dotted all over with fawn and blushed with dark red on the side of the sun; flesh yellowish, semi-fine and semi-melting, very gritty around the core; juice insufficient, saccharine, aromatic, having a disagreeable astringency; third; Oct.