Obtained by Boisbunel, Rouen, Fr. Fruit large, gray; flesh fine, very melting, sugary and perfumed, slightly musky; Mar. to May.
Cousin Blanc. 1. Mas Pom. Gen. 5:133, fig. 355. 1880.
Of Flemish origin. Cataloged by M. Jahn, 1864. Fruit medium, globular-conic, very pale green, sprinkled with very fine points of fawn; flesh white, slightly tinted with yellow, semi-fine and melting, fairly full of richly saccharine juice having a fresh and pleasant flavor of almond.
Couteau. 1. Parkinson Par. Ter. 593. 1629.
Mentioned by John Parkinson in 1629 in a list of pears grown in England at that time as a pear that is “neither good one way nor other.”
Craig. 1. Ohio Hort. Soc. Rpt. 177, fig. 1885-86.
Early Butter of Indiana. 2. Hooper W. Fr. Book 154. 1857.
One of several seedling pear trees brought from Vincennes, Ind., by John Wright and planted at Vevay, Ind., in 1804. Fruit very small, globular-acute-pyriform, pale lemon-yellow, with faint indication of blush and many minute, russet dots; flesh white, juicy, rather firm, pleasant; fair, becomes mealy when fully ripe; June.
Craig Favourite. 1. Hogg Fruit Man. 554. 1884. 2. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 199. 1889.