A cider pear used in France for the production of alcohol by distillation.
Oignon. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:473, fig. 1869. 2. Bunyard Handb. Hardy Fr. 191. 1920.
This is a variety which Leroy found cultivated in the western Departments of France which he thought might be the same as the pear called by Le Lectier in 1628 Oignon d’Été de Bretagne. In England it is one of the most fertile pears grown. Fruit above medium, spherical, much flattened at both ends and often smaller on one side than on the other; skin thick and rough, gray-fawn, entirely covered with large grayish dots; flesh whitish, coarse, breaking, rather granular around the core; juice moderate in amount, sweet, saccharine, only slightly perfumed; second; end of Sept.
Oignonet de Provence. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:474, fig. 1869.
The origin of this pear is unknown, but it was propagated by M. Urbain Audibert, a nurseryman near Tarascon in the South of France. In 1812 M. Audibert sent it to M. Loiseleur-Deslongchamps who later published at Paris the Nouveau Duhamel. In this work it was described and illustrated in 1815. Fruit small, globular or ovate, decidedly rounded; skin fine and thin, grass-green, covered with small gray dots, generally speckled with fawn and washed with clear reddish-russet on the side of the sun; flesh greenish-white, fine or semi-fine, melting, gritty at the center; juice sufficient, saccharine, vinegary, with a rather agreeable taste of anis; second; end of July.
Oken. 1. Dochnahl Führ. Obstkunde 2:21. 1856. 2. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:475, fig. 1869. Winter Oken. 3. Hogg Fruit Man. 668. 1884.
A seedling of Van Mons which fruited about 1826. Fruit medium, nearly globular or globular-ovate; skin fine, tender, pale green sprinkled with gray, extensively stained with fawn and slightly vermilioned on the side next the sun; flesh very white and fine, melting, watery, rather granular around the core; juice abundant, saccharine and having an exquisite aroma; first; mid-Oct. to end of Nov.
Oldfield. 1. Prince Pom. Man. 2:210. 1832. 2. Hogg Fruit Man. 624. 1884.
This is one of the most popular English perry pears, and took its name from the field where it was raised near Ledbury in Herefordshire. Fruit small, globular, even and regularly formed; skin uniform yellow, covered with minute dots, and with a patch of russet around the stalk; flesh yellowish, firm, breaking and very astringent.
Olivenbirne. 1. Dochnahl Führ. Obstkunde 2:188. 1856.