One of S. A. Shurtleff’s seedlings. First fruited in 1862. Fruit medium, short-pyriform, bright yellow, lumpy and nodular; flesh nearly white, coarse, gritty at core, of a pleasant, peculiar flavor; Sept.
Citron. 1. Mag. Hort. 4:231. 1838. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 720. 1869.
A seedling of the late Governor Edwards. Fruit small, globular-turbinate, greenish, shaded with dull crimson; flesh greenish, rather coarse, juicy, melting, sugary, vinous, musky; good; Aug. and Sept.
Citron d’Hyver. 1. Miller Gard. Dict. 3: 1807.
Fruit medium to large, “in shape and color very like an orange or citron;” flesh hard and dry, gritty; good baking pear; Dec. to Mar.
Citron de Saint Paul. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 1:566. 1867. 2. Mas Pom. Gen. 4:29, fig. 207. 1879.
From a seed bed of M. de la Farge in the Commune of Salers, Cantal, Fr. It was first published in 1856. Fruit below medium, ovate, obtuse and bossed, golden-yellow, dotted all over with bright green; flesh whitish, fine, melting, juicy, rather gritty; juice very abundant, sugary, sweet and deliciously perfumed; first; Sept.
Citron de Sierentz. 1. Knoop Fructologie 1:103, 135, Pl. V. 1771. 2. Mas Pom. Gen. 6:101, fig. 435. 1880.
The Horticultural Society of Angers received some grafts of this variety in 1836 with the information that it originated in the small village of Sierentz, near Mulhausen, Alsace. Knoop, however, describing it in 1771 under the name of Citron de Sirène gives it various Flemish synonyms. Fruit small to medium, turbinate or globular-ovate and slightly pyriform, bright yellow or greenish-yellow, dotted with russet and some brownish-fawn markings passing often to olive-brown and slightly vermilion on the side of the sun; flesh white, coarse, breaking, juicy, sugary, acid, savory; second; July and Aug.