Sanguine d'Italie
PearSanguine d'Italie
Origin / History
Imported into France about the beginning of the last century. Illustrated and described in Leroy's Dict. Pom., volume 2, page 647, figure 1869, as cited by Hedrick.
Tree
Not described in source.
Fruit
Size: Medium.
Form: Turbinate and regular, rather obtuse.
Stem: Not described in source.
Cavity: Not described in source.
Calyx: Not described in source.
Basin: Not described in source.
Skin: Grass-green ground color.
Dots: Dotted with gray on the shaded side and with yellow-red on the sun-exposed side.
Flesh and flavor: Flesh breaking, gritty, and coarse, dull yellow, veined with red especially about the core, where the yellow almost entirely disappears under the blood-red. Juice never abundant, saccharine, and sweet, without much perfume.
Core and seeds: Not described in source.
Season
Aug. and Sept.
Uses
Not described in source.
Subtypes / Variants
Not described in source.
Other
Hedrick's entry closes with the rating "third."
Book Sources
Described in 1 period pomological work
View original book sources (1)
— U.P. Hedrick, The Pears of New York (1921)Sanguine d'Italie.
- Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:647, fig. 1869.
Imported into France about the beginning of the last century. Fruit medium, turbinate and regular, rather obtuse, grass-green, dotted with gray on the shaded side and with yellow-red on the sun-exposed side; flesh breaking, gritty, coarse, dull yellow, veined with red especially about the core where the yellow almost entirely disappears under the blood-red; juice never abundant, saccharine, sweet, without much perfume; third; Aug. and Sept.