PI 264192 - Budsticks presented to USDA Plant Industry Station, Beltsville, Maryland by the Institut von de Veredeling van Tuinbouwgewassen, Wageningen, The Netherlands. Received March 16, 1960. Previously received in U.S. as PI 131990 on 23 March, 1939 from Op de Beeck, and as PI 137110 on 1 May, 1940 as a tree purchased from Pepiniares Armand op de Beeck, Putte-lez Malines, Belgium.Beurre Dilly - Obtained about 1848 by M.V. Dilly near Tournai, Belgium. Fruit rather large, pyriform-globular, obtuse; skin thick, rather rough and wrinkled, green changing to yellow, washed with dull red; flesh greenish, very fine, melting; juicy, sugary, perfumed; very good; September and October. -- U.P. Hedrick. 1921. The Pears of New York.
Beurre Dilly - synonyms: Beurre Delannoy, Poire de Jollain. Raised about 1848 by V. Dilly, 'marechal ferrant', at Jollain, near Tournay (Belgium). Fruit fairly large, obtuse, turbinate, swollen, often nearly as wide as long. Stem medium length, fairly thin, swollen at its point of attachment, curved, implanted obliquely in a shallow, lightly nippled cavity. Calyx large, half-open or open; in a rather wide, shallow cavity lightly crowned on the edges. Skin a little thick, slighly rough, dull greenish yellow, tinted with cloudy red in sun; dotted with gray washed with fawn around the stem. Flesh whitish, very slightly greenish, very fine, very melting, very juicy, very sweet, very pleasantly subacid and aromatic like Beurre Gris. Quality very good. Maturity September-October. Shoots fairly thick, short, a little elbowed, reddish brown; lenticels small and whitish. Buds medium, conical, a little divergent from shoot. Tree, grafted on all stocks, suits all forms; in espalier its fruit attains more size and more color. It takes rather fine dimensions on standard, where it retains its fruit which gains in color and quality. Thrives very well in rich clay-sandy-soils, well aerated. This pear, little subject to scab, is grown in all parts of France and should receive moderate pruning. -- Catal. Descr. Congres Pomol. 1927 pp. 207-208 as transcribed in old USDA PI station information file.