Dathis. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:4, fig. 1869.
Origin not clear, but it was cultivated in France before the middle of the last century. Fruit large, turbinate and very swelled, one side being often more so than the other, bright yellow passing to grayish-yellow on the cheek touched by the sun, dotted with green; flesh whitish, semi-fine, half-breaking, gritty at center; juice deficient, sugary; second; Oct.
David. 1. Guide Prat. 91. 1876.
Fruit rather coarse, of handsome pyramidal form, yellowish-green washed with purple; flesh breaking; first quality for cooking purposes; Apr. and May.
David d’Angers. 1. Guide Prat. 91. 1876. 2. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:6, fig. 1869.
Raised from seed by André Leroy in 1865. Fruit medium to large, turbinate-obtuse, rather pentagonal, mammillate at calyx, bright yellow, finely dotted with fawn; flesh white, fine, melting, juicy, sugary, acidulous, savory, pleasantly perfumed; first; Feb. to Apr.
Davis. 1. Mag. Hort. 23:107 1857. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 731. 1869.
A seedless native pear found about 1837 by a Mr. Davis, six miles from Philadelphia, on the Westchester Road. Fruit small; variable in form, sometimes globular, usually obtuse-pyriform, yellowish, much russeted; flesh buttery, aromatic, melting, sweet, rather coarse, somewhat vinous; good; Oct.
De Cerciaux. 1. Baltet Cult. Fr. 373. 1908.