Rousselet de la Cour

Pear

Origin/History

A wilding found on a farm adjoining M. Leroy's nurseries of La Cour at Angers, France. Originally described in Leroy's Dictionnaire Pomologique (vol. 2, 1869).

Tree

Not described in source.

Fruit

Size and Form: Below medium; turbinate; regular; acute; one side usually larger than the other.

Skin: Rough and thick; bronzed all over; covered with gray or white dots.

Flesh and Flavor: White; fine texture; breaking; watery. Juice abundant, saccharine, sourish, with an agreeable perfume.

Quality: Second.

Season

End of September and beginning of October.

Book Sources

Described in 1 period pomological work

Hedrick, The Pears of New York (1921)

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Rousselet de la Cour. i. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:589, fig. 1869. A wilding found on a farm which adjoined M. Leroy's nurseries of La Cour at Angers, Fr. Fruit below medium, turbinate, regular, acute, one side usually larger than the other; skin rough and thick, bronzed all over and covered with gray or white dots; flesh white, fine, breaking, watery; juice abundant, saccharine, sourish, with an agreeable perfume; second; end of Sept. and beginning of Oct.

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