Sanguine d'Italie
PearSanguine d'Italie
Origin/History
Imported into France about the beginning of the last century.
Tree
Not described in source.
Fruit
Size: Medium
Form: Turbinate and regular, rather obtuse
Skin: 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
Flavor/Juice: Juice never abundant, saccharine, sweet, without much perfume. Quality: third.
Season
August and September
Uses
Not described in source.
Subtypes/Variants
Not described in source.
Other
Also described in Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:647, fig. 1869.
Book Sources
Described in 1 period pomological work
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— 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.