Souvenir de Simon Bouvier
PearSouvenir de Simon Bouvier
Origin and History
Obtained by Xavier Grégoire of Jodoigne, Belgium, and first reported in 1846. The variety was described by Leroy in his Dictionnaire de Pomologie (Vol. 2, p. 674, with figure, 1869) and subsequently documented by U.P. Hedrick in The Pears of New York (1921).
Fruit
Size and Form
Below medium size. Turbinate in form, even in outline, rather swelled in all the lower part and somewhat obtuse at the summit.
Color
Pale yellow ground color, dotted with gray and green. Stained with brown-fawn coloration, with vermilioned patches on the cheek opposed to the sun.
Flesh and Flavor
Flesh white, juicy, semi-fine and semi-melting. Juice very abundant, vinous, saccharine, and strongly musky.
Quality
Second (standard 19th-century pomological classification).
Season
October.
Tree
Not described in source.
Uses
Not described in source.
Subtypes and Variants
Not described in source.
Other
Not described in source.
Book Sources
Described in 1 period pomological work
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— U.P. Hedrick, The Pears of New York (1921)Souvenir de Simon Bouvier. i. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:674, fig. 1869. Obtained by Xavier Grégoire, Jodoigne, Bel., and first reported in 1846. Fruit below medium, turbinate, even in outline, rather swelled in all the lower part and somewhat obtuse at the summit; color pale yellow, dotted with gray and green, stained with brown-fawn and vermilioned on the cheek opposed to the sun; flesh white, juicy, semi-fine and semi-melting; juice very abundant, vinous, saccharine and strongly musky; second; Oct.