A French variety described first in 1847. Its origin is unknown. Fruit large and sometimes very large, very long, cylindrical and contorted, often slightly constricted in the middle like Calebasse; skin thin, lemon-yellow, sprinkled with large gray dots, some fine patches of fawn, more or less tinted with vivid rose on the face opposed to the sun; flesh very white, semi-breaking and semi-fine; juice never abundant, sweetish, rather saccharine, wanting in perfume, but yet having a slight characteristic flavor; third for dessert, first for compotes; Nov. to Jan.
Sans Peau. 1. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:150, Pl. XIII. 1768. 2. Hogg Fruit Man. 644. 1884.
Skinless. 3. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 856. 1869.
Of ancient and uncertain origin; the first certain French description was written by La Quintinye in 1690. Fruit below medium or small, ovate, more or less long but always regular; skin exceedingly thin, and slightly rough to the touch, yellow-white, sprinkled with dots of darker green and often washed with pale rose on the sun-exposed side on which the dots are gray; flesh yellowish, coarse, melting, watery; juice sufficient, saccharine, acidulous, feebly perfumed; second; Aug.
Santa Anna. 1. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 68. 1895.
Originated in Santa Anna, California. Fruit large, obtuse-pyriform, yellow-russeted; flesh tough, highly perfumed; first; season late.
Santa Claus. 1. Garden 67:17, 35. 1905. 2. Bunyard Handb. Hardy Fr. 197. 1920.
Colonel Brymer, Dorchester, Eng., introduced this pear to the notice of the Royal Horticultural Society in 1905 explaining that the parent tree had come originally from Belgium some thirty years previously. Fruit medium, conical, slightly pyriform, fairly even, slightly rough, dull brown-red, practically covered with russet; stem long, slender; calyx partially open, in an even basin; flesh pale yellowish, melting, deliciously flavored; Dec.
Santa Rosa. 1. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 68. 1895.
Originated in California. Fruit large, pyriform; flesh buttery, vinous; mid-season.