Enfant Nantais. 1. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 210. 1889. 2. Guide Prat. 92. 1895.
Originated by M. Grousset of Nantes, Fr. Tree vigorous and productive. Fruit large, conic, gray; flesh fine, buttery, juicy, aromatic but very slightly tart; Oct.
Enfant Prodigue. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 385. 1845. 2. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:133, fig. 1869.
Rousselet Enfant Prodigue. 3. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 846. 1869.
Verschwenderin. 4. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 293. 1889.
A Van Mons seedling of about 1830. Fruit medium to large, ovate but variable, greenish-yellow, largely obscured with cinnamon-colored russet, more or less carmined on the side of the sun; flesh greenish-white, dense, melting, juicy, sugary, aromatic, acidulous, astringent; second; Sept.
Épine d’Été. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:138, fig. 1869. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 758. 1869.
An old pear grown in the gardens of the Monastery of Chartreux, Paris, and stated in the catalog of that institution, of 1736, to be identical with the pear Bugiarda of Italy. This Leroy has shown to be an error, the Bugiarda being the pear known in France as Trompeur. Le Lectier appears to have grown it in 1628 in his famous gardens at Orléans, though under the name of Poire d’Espine. Fruit above medium, pyriform, more or less obtuse, bright green, finely dotted with gray-russet and lightly colored with tender rose on the side of the sun; flesh yellowish, fine, melting, juicy, sugary and musky; a moderately good autumn pear; Sept.
Épine d’Été Rouge. 1. Guide Prat. 94, 270. 1876.