Found growing wild at Houga, Department of Gers, Fr., about 1826. Fruit medium, globular, very bright green, dotted with numerous small, gray specks; at maturity the basic green passes to pale yellow, a little warmer on the side next the sun; flesh white, fine, melting; juice plentiful, sweet and agreeably musky; fair; end of Aug.
Brüsseler Herbstbergamotte. 1. Dochnahl Führ. Obstkunde 2:76. 1856.
Raised by Van Mons in 1825. Fruit medium, obovate-turbinate, yellowish-green changing on maturity to lemon-yellow all over; flesh granular, soft, vinous and strongly musky; good; Nov.
Brute Bonne. 1. Miller Gard. Kal. 206. 1734.
Franzosische Zapfenbirne. 2. Dochnahl Führ. Obstkunde 2:139, 1856.
Fruit medium, thin-skinned, grass-green all over, flushed red on the side next the sun; flesh somewhat musky, sweet, acidulous; good; end of Oct.
Bryan Edwards. 1. Trans. Lond. Hort. Soc. 16:395. 1826.
A seedling found growing early in the nineteenth century in the neighborhood of Southampton, Eng., by Bryan Edwards. Fruit globular-turbinate, pale green changing at maturity to pale yellow; flesh melting, rich, sweet, pleasantly perfumed; of considerable excellence; beginning of Nov.
Buchanan. 1. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 114. 1869.
Submitted for examination to the Fruit Committee of the American Pomological Society in January, 1869, by Isaac Buchanan of New York. Fruit medium, obovate-acute-pyriform, dull yellow, with considerable russet; flesh a little coarse-grained, melting, juicy, gritty next the core, moderately sweet, and of good flavor.