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Sucrée du Cornice

Pear

Sucrée du Cornice

Origin/History

Raised by the old Horticultural Society of Angers, France, and first fruited in 1855.

Fruit

Size: Above medium.

Form: More or less obtuse, turbinate, irregular, much swelled in its lower half.

Skin: Golden yellow, entirely sprinkled with reddish dots and generally rayed with fawn around the calyx.

Flesh and Flavor: White, semi-fine and semi-melting, watery, very granular around the core. Quality rated as second.

Core/Seeds: Not described in source.

Season

September and October.

Uses

Not described in source.

Subtypes/Variants

Not described in source.

Other

Not described in source.


Source: U.P. Hedrick, The Pears of New York (1921), citing Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:680, fig. 1869; Downing Fr. Trees Am. 861, 1869.

Book Sources

Described in 1 period pomological work

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Sucrée du Cornice.

  1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:680, fig. 1869.
  2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 861. 1869.

Raised by the old Horticultural Society of Angers, Fr., and first fruited in 1855. Fruit above medium, more or less obtuse, turbinate, irregular, much swelled in its lower half; color golden yellow, entirely sprinkled with reddish dots and generally rayed with fawn around the calyx; flesh white, semi-fine and semi-melting, watery, very granular around the core; second; Sept. and Oct.

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