Kenrick says: “New and large; beurrée; of first-rate excellence, ripening at Paris in November, according to M. Jamin.”
Poire de Vitrier. 1. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:139, Pl. XLIV, fig. 4. 1768. 2. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:746, fig. 1869.
This is probably a variety of German origin, for Valerius Cordus, who was a native of Hesse and died in 1544, spoke of it as abounding in Saxony, in the suburbs of Eisleben, and very common in all Germany. Duhamel du Monceau described it in France in 1768. Fruit medium, rather regular-ovate, wrinkled and mammillate at the summit, dull yellow, much clouded over with gray-russet, dotted with light brown, and vermilioned on the side toward the sun; flesh whitish, watery, semi-fine and semi-melting, gritty around the center; juice sufficient, sugary, vinous, slightly musky; second; Nov. and Dec.
Poire du Voyageur. 1. Guide Prat. 107, 311. 1876.
Originated by M. Boisbunel of Rouen, Fr. Tree vigorous and fertile. Fruit medium, pyriform, yellowish-green; flesh juicy, granular around the core; third; summer.
Poirier de Jardin. 1. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:143, Pl. XIX, fig. 3. 1768.
Garden Pear. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 770. 1869.
Origin unknown; probably French. Fruit large, globular-oblate, orange-shaped, surface a little bossed, on the side of the sun a beautiful deep red, spotted with golden-yellow, the shaded side being streaked and rayed with bright red on yellow; flesh semi-breaking, a little coarse and somewhat gritty around the core; juice sugary and of a very good flavor; good; Dec.
Poiteau. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:537, fig. 1869.