Saint-Augustin. 1. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:230, Pl. LVIII, fig. 3. 1768. 2. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:614, fig. 1869.
An old French pear published in 1650 by Ménage. Fruit below medium, pyriform-ovate, rather regular in form, slightly obtuse, dirty yellow, dotted with gray, stained with fawn around both poles and sometimes slightly clouded with brown-red on the side next the sun; flesh white, semi-fine, breaking; juice rather wanting, sweet, saccharine, slightly musky and pleasant; second; Feb. to Apr.
Saint Denis. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 849. 1869.
Fruit small, turbinate and uneven in its outline, pale yellow, with a crimson cheek and thickly dotted with crimson dots; flesh semi-melting, very juicy and sweet, with a fine aroma; good; Aug. and Sept.
Saint Dorothée. 1. Mag. Hort. 14:110. 1848. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 849. 1869.
A variety received in this country from France and fruited here for the first time in 1847. Fruit large, fusiform or spindle-shaped, bright lemon-yellow; flesh fine, buttery, with a saccharine, sprightly and highly perfumed flavor; good; Oct. and Nov.
Saint François. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:616, fig. 1869.
Until 1675 when Merlet described it this variety was little known and he then called it de Grillon or Bonne-Amet but in 1690 on re-printing and completing his work he spoke of it as the Saint François. Fruit above medium and sometimes very large, long-conic, slightly obtuse and bossed, one side more swelled than the other, dull greenish-yellow, finely dotted with brown, widely stained with fawn around the stem and more or less flecked with the same and slightly carmined on the side of the sun; flesh white, extremely fine, semi-breaking, rarely gritty; juice scanty and wanting in sugar, musky, delicate in flavor; third for eating raw, first for cooking; mid-Nov. to end of Jan.
Saint Gallus Weinbirne. 1. Dochnahl Führ. Obstkunde 2:194. 1856.