Clone IRP 131-1 from the IR-2 fruit tree virus certificaion program, Prosser, Washington. Prosser obtained from USDA, Glenn Dale, Maryland, in 1980.This strange variety was obtained from seed by M. de Nerbonne, in the commune of Huille (Maine-et-Loire), France, and first fruited in 1839. The tree forms a bush between 3 and 4 feet high; it is remarkable for its dwarf habit, and its erect, thick, fleshy branches. Fruit medium and sometimes larger, globular, irregular, but varieable in form; skin thin, slightly rough, yellowish-green, uniformly covered with large gray-russet dots; flesh white, semi-fine and semi-melting, rather dry; juice deficient, sugary, sweet, almost without perfume; third; October. -- U.P. Hedrick, The Pears of New York, 1922.
Scions presented by the Station Recherches Viticoles, Department of Agriculture, Angers, France. Received by the USDA Plant Industry Station in Beltsville, Maryland on 7 September, 1967. Received as Pyrus communis 'Le Nain Vert'. -- USDA Plant Inventory No. 175.