First imported into Holland by Freiherr V. Siebolt during the early part of the nineteenth century. Introduced into France in 1873. Fruit fairly large for the type, roundish in form. Skin granular, pale yellow in color, numerous gray dots. Flesh white, gritty, potato-like in texture. Perfumed, quince-like flavor. Poor in dessert quality. Early midseason. -- H. Hartman 1957.Among the most successful importers of oriental plants was Freiherr V. Siebold who maintained a nursery and botanic garden in Leyden, Holland, during the first half of the nineteenth century. Of the pears imported by him, Mikado was one. This was procured from Von Siebold's nursery in 1873 by Messrs. Simon-Loius, Metz, Lorraine. Fruit rather large, globular-ovoid; skin rough to the touch, yellowish-olive, dotted with gray specks; flesh white, fine, breaking, rather juicy, perfumed, with a pronounced quince flavor, subacid; poor, uneatable raw; end of September. -- U.P. Hedrick, The Pears of New York, 1921.