This variety was published by Messrs. Simon-Louis, of Metz, Lorraine, in 1895 as having been received by them from M. Niemetz, Winnitza, European Western Russia. Fruit medium to large, yellow, blushed with red on the side of the sun; medium quality; end of July.
Impériale à Feuilles de Chêne. 1. Duhamel Trait Arb. Fr. 2:228, Pl. LIV. 1768. 2. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:287, fig. 1869.
Oak-Leaved Imperial. 3. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 822. 1869.
Impériale. 4. Hogg Fruit Man. 596. 1884.
The origin of this pear is unknown but it was propagated by the Chartreux Monks of Paris in 1752. The tree is very vigorous and hardy and the leaves are singular in that, due to their peculiar indenting and puckering, they have the appearance of being sinuated like those of the oak. Fruit large, ovate, irregular, mammillate at the summit and always having one side larger than the other, dull yellow, covered with large reddish dots; flesh whitish, coarse, semi-breaking, juicy, gritty at center, sugary, almost without perfume; first for cooking, third for dessert; Feb. to May.
Incommunicable. 1. Lindley Guide Orch. Gard. 376. 1831. 2. Mag. Hort. 9:131. 1843.
Flemish. In a list of pears grown in France and the Netherlands sent by Joseph Parmentier to the London Horticultural Society in 1824. Fruit above medium, pyramidal and compressed toward the stalk, pale grass-green, thickly sprinkled with small gray-russety specks; stem short, stout, inclined; flesh yellowish-white, tinged near the core with a light shade of orange, a little gritty, melting, juicy, saccharine, with a slight musky perfume; latter half of Oct.
Incomparable de Beuraing. 1. Guide Prat. 97. 1876.
A French pear, presumably, published first by Grégoire and on trial in the trial-orchard of Messrs. Simon-Louis in 1876. Fruit very large; flesh fine, melting, juicy; of rather good quality; Nov.
Indian Queen. 1. Mass. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 32. 1870. 2. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 66. 1875.