A variety introduced as new in 1906 by M. Bruant, Poitiers, Fr. Fruit of good size, having rather the form of a large fig, brilliant yellow, colored with purple on the side of the sun, of magnificent appearance; flesh very white, fine, melting, juicy, very sugary, with an agreeable perfume; first, one of the best of the season; July and Aug.
Fin Juillet. 1. Rev. Hort. 477, fig. 169. 1898.
Obtained by M. Hérault, Angers, Fr., from Beurré Giffard crossed with Joyau de Septembre in 1879. Fruit medium, turbinate, ovate, enlarged at center, russeted all over; flesh fine, very melting, rather subject to mellowness, excessively juicy, very sugary, slightly acidulous and with a delicate, musky savor; good; Aug.
Fin-Or d’Orleans. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:160, fig. 1869.
Fine Gold of Summer. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 760. 1869.
An old pear mentioned by the earliest French writers. Fruit small, turbinate, swelled, obtuse, golden-yellow, dotted with carmine on the shaded side and bright red on the other cheek; flesh greenish, semi-fine and melting, juicy, sugary, sourish, rather delicate; second; Aug.
Fin-Or de Septembre. 1. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:156. 1768. 2. Hogg Fruit Man. 577. 1884.
Under the names of Finor and Finoin Claude Saint-Etienne wrote of this pear in 1670. Fruit medium, pyriform-obtuse, yellowish-green speckled with brown-fawn dots, orange-yellow and brick-red on the side of the sun; flesh white, tender, semi-breaking; juice moderate, sugary, slightly acid, without pronounced perfume; third; Oct.
Fitzwater. 1. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 73. 1895.
Originated in New York. It resembles Lawrence. Fruit small, obtusely pyriform, yellow partly covered with russet; flesh very fine-grained and melting; fair; winter.