Raised by Van Mons; it fruited in 1841. Fruit large, pyramidal, bright green, covered with fawn dots, becoming yellow within a day or two of its ripening; flesh fine-grained, half-buttery, tender; juice plentiful, sugary, vinous and delicately perfumed; good but variable; Oct. and Nov.
Constant Claes. 1. Guide Prat. 108, 260. 1876. 2. Mas Pom. Gen. 7:91, fig. 526. 1881.
A Belgian variety distributed in 1863 by de Jonghe. Fruit medium or rather large, conic-pyriform; skin thin and slender, pale green, washed on ripening with light orange-red; flesh white, fine, melting; juice abundant, sweet, vinous and pleasantly scented; first; Sept.
Cooke. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 484. 1857. 2. Elliott Fr. Book 372. 1859.
Place of origin, King George County, Va. Introduced by H. R. Roby, Fredericksburg, Va. Fruit rather large, irregularly pyramidal, pale-yellow; flesh juicy, buttery, melting, sweet, rich, vinous; mid-season.
Copia. 1. McIntosh Bk. Gard. 2:455. 1855. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 571. 1857. 3. Ibid. 729. 1869.
Originated about the middle of last century at Philadelphia. Fruit large, yellow, with specks of russet, broad-turbinate; flesh sugary, rather coarse, somewhat resembling the Beurré Diel in flavor; good; Sept. and Oct.
Cornélie Daras. 1. Guide Prat. 89. 1895.
Distributed by Daras de Naghin of Antwerp, Bel. Fruit medium, globular, lemon-yellow; flesh fine, melting, juicy, sugary and well perfumed; Nov. and Dec.
Cornemuse. 1. Gard. Chron. 335. 1862. 2. Leroy Dict. Pom. 1:602, fig. 1867.