Longue Verte d’Hiver. 2. Mas Pom. Gen. 7:137, fig. 549. 1881.
A pear of German origin and cultivated especially in Thuringia and Saxony. Fruit medium or nearly medium, conic-pyriform, water-green, sown with dots of a darker green, passing to greenish-white or yellowish-white at maturity; flesh white, rather fine, semi-melting, full of sweet, saccharine juice but without any appreciable perfume; good; autumn and early winter.
Safran. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:611, fig. 1869.
An old French pear known in the seventeenth century as the Saffran d’Hyver. Fruit medium and sometimes less, variable in form, usually ovate, very globular and irregular or slightly long-conic; skin rather rough, saffron-yellow, shaded with gray, dotted, veined and marked with brown-russet; flesh yellowish, semi-melting, and semi-fine, granular; juice sufficient, saccharine, acidulous, with a perfume resembling that of fennel rather than of musk; third; Oct. to Jan.
Saint André. 1. Hovey Fr. Am. 1:79, fig. 1851. 2. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:613, fig. 1869.
The origin of this pear is unascertainable but it was introduced to this country by R. Manning, Salem, Mass., who imported cions of it from Messrs. Baumann, nurserymen, Bollwiller, Fr. (Bollweiler, Alsace), in 1834 or 1835. Fruit medium or below, ovate, rather symmetrical, bossed and sometimes a little ventriculated in its lower half; skin fine and smooth, yellow-green, dotted and streaked with gray, very rarely colored on the cheek next the sun; flesh greenish-white, fine and most melting, extremely juicy, sweet, saccharine, slightly vinous, delicate and highly perfumed; first; Oct.
Saint Andrew. 1. Langley Pomona 131. 1729.
Described in 1729 as one of the best pears in England. Fruit large, oblong, very obtuse, greatest diameter two-thirds down toward the base, diminished only slightly toward the stem; Sept.
Saint Aubin sur Riga. 1. McIntosh Bk. Gard. 2:461. 1855.
“A New Jersey pear of much excellence either as a wall or standard.” Fruit large; flesh melting, tender, of rich flavor; excellent; Jan. and Feb.