A variegated form of Louise Bonne de Jersey, the wood and fruit being marked with golden stripes. It originated as a bud sport.
Louise-Bonne de Printemps. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:359, fig. 1869. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 804. 1869.
Obtained by M. Boisbunel, Rouen, Fr., and first published in 1857. Fruit above medium, long obtuse-pyriform, regular in contour, mammillate at summit and slightly bossed at base, yellow-ochre, dotted with greenish-gray; flesh semi-fine and semi-melting, white, gritty around the center, very juicy, rarely sugary, slightly sweet and slightly aromatic; grafted on pear and trained on espalier in a good situation it is a pear of high merit; Feb. to Apr.
Louise Bonne Sannier. 1. Guide Prat. 110. 1876. 2. Cat. Cong. Pom. France 291, fig. 1906.
M. Sannier, Rouen, Fr., obtained this pear; it was first reported in 1868. Fruit rather small or medium, oval, obliquely obtuse near the stem, dark yellow, touched with bright red; flesh yellow, juicy, melting, remarkably saccharine, sprightly and perfumed; good to very good; Oct. to Dec.
Louise de Boulogne. 1. Barry Fr. Garden 317. 1851. 2. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:361. 1869.
Described by Barry in 1851 among “new and rare pears, recently introduced, that give promise of excellence.” Leroy wrote of it as a seedling of Van Mons. Fruit large, breaking, keeps through the winter.
Louise Dupont. 1. Ann. Pom. Belge 2:59, fig. 1854. 2. Mag. Hort. 23:301. 1857.
Louise Dupont was the product of one of the last seedlings raised by Van Mons and was harvested for the first time in 1853. Fruit rather large, sometimes of Doyenné form but usually longer and more turbinate; skin thin, dull green passing to golden yellow at maturity, colored with russet-fawn on the sunny side, dotted and marked with fawn all over; flesh white, semi-fine, melting, full of juice, saccharine and well perfumed; first; Oct. and Nov.
Louise d’Orléans. 1. Horticulturist 1:140. 1846. 2. Ann. Pom. Belge 2:35, fig. 1853.