Rousselet Précoce
PearRousselet Précoce
Origin / History
The variety is known in Germany as Frühe Geishirtlebirne and must be distinguished from the Rousselet hâtif, or Poire de Chypre, of Duhamel. Mr. Cabot, President of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, classed it among the new or recently introduced fruits in 1851. It is described in the Magasin Horticole, vol. 18, p. 151 (1852), and in Mas's Pomologie Générale, vol. 6, p. 91, fig. 430 (1880).
Tree
Not described in source.
Fruit
Size: Fruit rather small.
Form: Fruit rather small, pyriform, regular in contour.
Stem: Not described in source.
Cavity: Not described in source.
Calyx: Not described in source.
Basin: Not described in source.
Skin: Vivid green, slightly touched with yellow at first. At maturity it changes to lemon-yellow, sometimes preserving a tone of green. The side next the sun is washed with blood-red spots having yellow centers.
Dots: Sprinkled with very numerous, very small, gray dots.
Flesh and flavor: Whitish, fine, tender, semibuttery, juicy, and saccharine, scented with the perfume of the Rousselets. Quality good.
Core and seeds: Not described in source.
Season
Mid-July.
Uses
Not described in source.
Subtypes / Variants
Not described in source.
Other
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)Rousselet Précoce.
i. Mag. Hort. 18:151. 1852. 2. Mas Pom. Gen. 6:91, fig. 430. 1880.
This is the variety known in Germany as Frühe Geishirtlebirne and must be distinguished from the Rousselet hâtif or Poire de Chypre of Duhamel. It was classed in 1851 by Mr. Cabot, President of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, among the new or recently introduced fruits. Fruit rather small, pyriform, regular in contour, vivid green slightly touched with yellow, sprinkled with very numerous, very small, gray dots, changing at maturity to lemon-yellow, preserving sometimes a tone of green, the side next the sun being washed with blood-red spots having yellow centers; flesh whitish, fine, tender, semibuttery, juicy, saccharine, and scented with the perfume of the Rousselets; good; mid-July.