Spinka

Pear

Spinka (Pear)

Origin/History Origin uncertain, though Oberdieck thought it came originally from Bohemia.

Tree Not described in source.

Fruit

Form and Size: Nearly medium, ovate, more or less shortened.

Skin: Thick and very firm, pale water-green, taking a white tint long before maturity, sprinkled with brown dots, changing to pale yellow and the side next the sun more or less warmly golden.

Flesh and Flavor: Yellow-tinted, fine, semi-buttery. Juice sufficient, saccharine and agreeably perfumed. Quality fairly good.

Stem: Not described in source.

Cavity: Not described in source.

Calyx and Basin: Not described in source.

Core and Seeds: Not described in source.

Season September.

Uses Not described in source.

Subtypes/Variants Not described in source.

Source U.P. Hedrick, The Pears of New York (1921); cited from Mas, Pomologie Générale 6:89, fig. 429 (1880).

Book Sources

Described in 1 period pomological work

Hedrick, The Pears of New York (1921)

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Spinka.

i. Mas Pom. Gen. 6:89, fig. 429. 1880.

Origin uncertain, though Oberdieck thought it came originally from Bohemia. Fruit nearly medium, ovate, more or less shortened; skin thick and very firm, pale watergreen, taking a white tint long before maturity, sprinkled with brown dots, changing to pale yellow and the side next the sun more or less warmly golden; flesh yellow-tinted, fine, semi-buttery; juice sufficient, saccharine and agreeably perfumed; fairly good; Sept.

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