Raised in 1861 by Jacques Jalais, Nantes, Fr. Fruit above medium, like Calebasse in form, meadow-green, slightly yellowish, dotted with gray; flesh greenish-white, fine, melting; juice sufficient, sweet, acidulous, perfumed; first; Nov.
Duchesse d’Arenberg. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:103, fig. 1869. 2. Mas Pom. Gen. 7:35, fig. 498. 1881.
Although distributed from the Royal Nurseries at Vilvorde-lez-Bruxelles without mention of origin its name suggests Belgium. Fruit medium and often larger, turbinate-obtuse-oblate, greenish-yellow passing to bright green on the side of the sun, dotted with gray-russet; flesh yellowish, coarse, melting, juicy, gritty around the core; sugary, perfumed, rather sour; second; Aug.
Duchesse de Berry d’Été. 1. Leroy Dic. Pom. 2:104. fig. 1869. 2. Hogg Fruit Man. 569. 1884.
Raised in a seed bed in the Commune of Saint-Herblain, Department of Loire-Inferieure, Fr., in 1827. Fruit medium, globular-turbinate, yellow, dotted with dark gray; flesh very white, semi-fine, melting; juice abundant, sugary, aromatic; first; Aug. and Sept.
Duchesse de Bordeaux. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:105, fig. 1869. 2. Hogg Fruit Man. 570. 1884. 3. Bunyard Handb. Hardy Fr. 171. 1920.
Beurré Perrault. 4. Mas Le Verger 1:133, fig. 65. 1866-73.
Bordeaux. 5. Cal. Com. Hort. Pear Grow. Cal. 7:No. 5, 242. 1918.
M. Secher, in the Commune of Montjean, Department of Maine-et-Loire, Fr., bought in 1850 from M. Perrault, Montrevault, some pear trees. Ten years passed away and then one of the trees produced the excellent fruit here described. M. Secher invited many persons to taste it, in particular MM. Perrault and Baptiste Desportes. Later the variety fruited with M. Perrault and was named by him Beurré Perrault. Secher affirmed he had properly given the variety the name of Duchesse de Bordeaux. Tree large, vigorous, upright. Fruit large, roundish-pyriform; skin thick, very tough, rough, greenish-yellow, with mottlings and patches of russet; stem rather long, thick, set in a moderately deep, acute cavity; calyx large, open, placed in a moderately deep basin; flesh yellowish-white, firm, granular, juicy, mild; good; Nov. and Dec.