Raised in 1840 at Angers, Fr., by a gardener named Robin. Fruit large, globular-ovate, yellowish, dotted and stained with bright russet; flesh melting, juicy, sweet, vinous, aromatic; first; Oct.
Doyenné Rose. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:82, fig. 1869. 2. Mas Pom. Gen. 5:21, fig. 299. 1880.
From a seed bed made in 1820 by Edouard Sageret, author of Pomologie physiologique; it bore fruit first in 1830. Fruit above medium, globular, irregular, yellow-ochre on the shaded side and beautiful rose on the side of the sun; flesh very white, semi-melting, granular; juice scarcely sufficient, little perfume or flavor; second; Oct.
Doyenné Saint-Roch. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:83, fig. 1869.
Largely grown in the Gironde, Fr., in the middle of the nineteenth century. Fruit above medium and sometimes larger, globular but variable, pale yellow dotted with russet passing to bright yellow on the side next the sun, where it is lightly washed with carmine; flesh white, semi-fine, melting or slightly breaking, juicy, sugary, acidulous, of delicate flavor; second; Aug. and Sept.
Doyenné de Saumur. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:84, fig. 1869.
A French pear of uncertain origin but known in the districts of Saumur and Lyons early in the nineteenth century. Fruit medium and below, very variable in form, from ovate-elongated to turbinate-obtuse, bossed and swelled, pale greenish-yellow, dotted with gray-russet especially on the side next the sun; flesh white, very fine, melting, juicy, perfumed, having an after-taste of musk; first; Sept.
Doyenné Sentelet. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:86, fig. 1869. 2. Mas Pom. Gen. 3:137, fig. 165. 1878.
A gain of Van Mons, 1823. Fruit about medium or below, turbinate-ovate-obtuse, often irregular, deep rich yellow, much mottled and speckled with cinnamon-colored russet; flesh yellowish-white, melting, juicy, sugary, vinous; good; Oct.
Doyenné Sieulle. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:87, fig. 1869. 2. Hogg Fruit Man. 567. 1884.