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Sanguine d'Italie

Pear

Sanguine 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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Sanguine d'Italie.

  1. 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.

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