Winter Jonah. 1. N. J. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 214. 1889. 2. Can. Exp. Farms Rpt. 422. 1903.
Tree a medium grower. Fruit medium, roundish, pale yellow with a faint blush on the sunny side, a few small, dark greenish-yellow spots, and many small, gray dots; stem medium, short, set in a very slight depression; calyx large, open, set in a narrow and shallow basin; winter.
Winter Pear. 1. Mag. Hort. 20:75. 1854.
Sent to the Fruit Committee of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society in 1854 by Charles Kessler, Reading, Pa. Fruit medium, roundish, yellow, scarcely “good” in quality.
Winter Popperin. 1. Parkinson Par. Ter. 592. 1629.
One of two “very good dry firme peares, somewhat spotted, and brownish on the outside.”
Winter Rousselet. 1. Mawe-Abercrombie Univ. Gard. Bot. 1778.
Rousselet d’Hiver. 3. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:593, fig. 1869.
An ancient French pear of unknown origin, though it was described by Claude Saint-Étienne in 1670 and by Duhamel in the eighteenth century. Fruit small, turbinate, more or less obtuse, usually somewhat contracted toward the top, and often depressed on one side and mammillate on the other, yellow-green dotted with gray russet and blushed with reddish-brown on the face exposed to the sun; flesh white, semi-breaking, watery, rather granular, juice abundant, saccharine, rarely having much aroma and sometimes acid; second; Feb. and Mar.
Winter Seckel. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 562. 1857.