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Prémices d'Écully

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Prémices d'Écully

Origin/History: Obtained by M. Luizet, a nurseryman at Ecully-lez-Lyon, Rhone, France, from a bed of mixed seeds made in 1847.

Tree: Not described in source.

Fruit

  • Size and Form: Rather large, irregular ovate, round and bossed.
  • Skin: Yellow with here and there a green tinge; thickly spotted and stained with small blotches of brown russet.
  • Flesh: Tender, whitish, fine, melting, juicy, easily becoming soft.
  • Flavor: Sweet, saccharine, with a flavor of musk.

Season: September.

Uses: Not described in source.

Subtypes/Variants: Not described in source.

Sources:

  1. Leroy, Dictionnaire de Pomologie, 2:544, fig. (1869)
  2. Hogg, Fruit Manual, 632 (1884)
  3. U.P. Hedrick, The Pears of New York (1921)

Book Sources

Described in 1 period pomological work

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Prémices d'Écully.

  1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:544, fig. 1869.
  2. Hogg Fruit Man. 632. 1884.

Obtained by M. Luizet, a nurseryman at Ecully-lez-Lyon, Rhone, Fr., from a bed of mixed seeds made in 1847. Fruit rather large, irregular ovate, round and bossed, yellow, with here and there a green tinge, thickly spotted and stained with small blotches of brown russet; flesh tender, whitish, fine, melting, juicy, easily becoming soft, sweet, saccharine, with a flavor of musk; Sept.

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