The Abbé Duquesnes, to whom we are beholden for many good fruits, found this pear in Hainaut, Bel. Fruit very large, pyriform, pyramidal, olive-green, with dark gray shading around the stalk and calyx, strongly blushed with orange-red and dotted with bright gray on the side next the sun, and yellow at maturity on the shaded cheek, with brown-black dots; flesh fine, semi-melting, yellowish-white; juice abundant, saccharine, with an agreeable perfume; second for table, first for household; Sept.
Roitelet. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 843. 1869.
A Flemish pear. Fruit small, globular, yellow,—netted, shaded and sprinkled with russet; flesh whitish, semi-melting, juicy, sweet; good; Sept.
Rokeby. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 844. 1869. 2. Mas Pom. Gen. 1:73, fig. 37. 1872.
Gained by M. Bivort, Bel., and first published in 1848. Fruit medium or below, pyriform, swelled in lower half, lower end flat, bright green turning to bright yellow in the shade and blood-red on the cheek exposed to the sun; flesh white, semi-fine, juicy, wanting in quality; second; Aug. and Sept.
Rolmaston Duchess. 1. Horticulturist 29:148. 1874.
Published in 1874. Fruit medium, pyriform, yellow-green; flesh fine, melting, juicy, vinous; very good; Oct.
Ronde du Bosquet. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:586, fig. 1869.
Raised from seed and bore the name of the place where the parent tree, which was first described in 1863, grew in M. Leroy’s grounds, Angers, Fr. Fruit below medium, irregularly globular and strongly bossed, bright yellow, dotted with brown, much mottled with russet; flesh whitish, watery, very fine, melting, rarely gritty; juice abundant, vinous, saccharine, possessing a delicious perfume; first; Oct.
Rondelet. 1. Mag. Hort. 12:340. 1846. 2. Ibid. 18:436, fig. 32. 1852.