Getting ready to graft the sucre verte pear this weekend. Anyone growing it currently and if so I’ve read it fruits in October an excellent quality pear. Looking forward to this one! Medieval Cookery - Fruit Varieties.
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I love when the names are so descriptive, i.e., sucre verte = sweet green, doesn’t it?
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Yes it is. Excellent observation! Here is some additional information and a picture ars grin has available about the pear https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/accessiondetail.aspx?1436205
"The name means ‘Sweet Green’ in English. Origin obscure. Believed to have come from Barmont, a chateau on the boundary of Burgundy. Described as early as 1598. Well known in Paris by 1670. Fruit small in size, roundish-turbinate in form. Skin smooth, glossy, intense green in color with inconspicuous dots. Flesh white, fine, but with some grit at the center, buttery, juicy. Fairly sweet, nut-like aroma, pleasing flavor. Early midseason. Tree vigorous, spreading in habit, very productive. Moderately susceptible to blight. – H. Hartman, 1957.
Fruit medium or below, globular-turbinate; skin shining, intense green, dotted with numerous gray and green dots, a little whitened on the shaded side, yellowish when ripe; flesh yellowish-white, buttery, melting, semi-fine, some grit about the center; juice plentiful, sugary, slightly perfumed; excellent but variable; October. – U.P. Hedrick, The Pears of New York,1921.
Green Sweet. Synonyms: Bayonnaise, Green Sugar, Green Summer, Gris de Chine, Prince’s Green Sugar. Sucre Verd, Sucre Vert, Sugar Pear, Sukerey d’Automne, Verdette. – W.H. Ragan, Nomenclature of the Pear, 1908.
This pear came from France; it is of moderate size; the form round, a little oblong - the blossom end flat, the eye sunk but little below the surrounding part, towards the stalk it is a little diminished; the stem large, about an inch in length - the skin is smooth and green - the flesh buttery, the juice sweet and well tasted - it ripens in October. The tree is of vigorous growth. – W. Coxe, A view of the cultivation of fruit trees, 1817."
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