A wilding found about 1760 by a M. Chemison in the forest of Rochechouart near Mas, Department of Haute-Vienne, Fr. Fruit medium, obtuse-pyriform, lively yellow or lemon-yellow, finely dotted with brown and washed with carmine on the sun-exposed cheek; flesh white, fine, tender, melting, sweet, gritty at center, juicy, acid, musky; good; Nov. and Dec.
Épine Royale. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 758. 1869.
Of French origin. Fruit medium, pyriform, yellowish, blushed with bright red on the side next the sun; flesh fine, melting, juicy, sweet, vinous; Oct. Épine-Royale de Courtray. 1. Mas Pom. Gen. 4:127, fig. 256. 1879.
Origin not clear though mentioned in the Bulletin of the Society of Van Mons in 1858. Fruit medium or large, pyriform-obtuse, green sprinkled with numerous brown dots, changing to pale yellow at maturity, with some red on the side next the sun; flesh white, semi-fine, buttery, juicy, sugary, pleasant; handsome and good for transportation; Aug.
Ermsinde. 1. Dochnahl Führ. Obstkunde 2:69. 1856. 2. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:143, fig. 1869.
A chance seedling found in the garden of M. Bouvier, Jodoigne, Bel., and reported in 1851. Fruit above medium, in form variable from pyramidal to turbinate, lemon-yellow, dotted and marked with brown-russet, and blushed with dark red on the exposed cheek; second; early Oct.
Ernestine Auzolle. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 758. 1869.
Of French origin. Fruit small, globular-pyriform, sometimes acute-pyriform, greenish-yellow, with a shade of brown in the sun, often netted and patched with russet; flesh rather coarse, yellowish, moderately juicy, semi-melting, sweet; good; Sept. and Oct.
Eseme. 1. Ia. Soc. Hort. Rpt. 61. 1880.
Cultivated on the northern steppes of Russia and introduced to this country by J. L. Budd of Iowa in 1880.