Toward the end of the eighteenth century, 1780-83, Henri Manger claimed that he had identified the Angobert with the _Signina_ or _Testacea_ of Columella and Pliny. Fruit very large, variable but generally obovate-pyriform, distorted, enlarged around the calyx end, dull yellow, dotted and streaked with fawn, washed with red on the side of the sun; flesh white, coarse, juicy, sweet, having a rather agreeable after-flavor of musk; third for the table but first for the kitchen. =Angoisse.= =1.= Leroy _Dict. Pom._ =1=:145, fig. 1867. _Winter Bon Chretien._ =2.= Hogg _Fruit Man._ 666. 1884. This is one of the most ancient French pears having been described in the year 1094 in a chronological manuscript attributed to Geoffroy, the Prior of the Benedictine monastery of Vigeois in the Diocese of Limoges, in which it was stated to have derived its name from the village of Angoisse in the old Province of Limonsin, Fr. Fruit small to medium, turbinate, obtuse, swelled, golden-yellow, dotted, marbled with fawn and washed with brownish-red on the side to the sun; flesh whitish, slightly melting, coarse, always very gritty at the center; juice excessively abundant, acidulous, sugary; third for dessert, second for cooking, first for cider; Dec. to Apr. =Angora.= =1.= Leroy _Dict. Pom._ =1=:147, fig. 1867. =2.= Mas _Pom. Gen._ =5=:35, fig. 306. 1880. This is a member of a group of pears rather loosely termed Pound Pears. By some authors Angora is given as a synonym for _Belle Angevine_ or _Uvedale's St. Germain_. In an account of a voyage he undertook in 1700 on command of King Louis XIV of France, M. Tournefort, the noted botanist, states that he saw at Beibasas, Asia Minor, the pears known in Constantinople as Angora. In 1832, Léon Leclerc imported it into France from Constantinople, having obtained it with difficulty through the French Ambassador at the Golden Horn. Fruit above medium to large, pyriform, obtuse, swelled around the center, rather irregular in form; skin thick, hard to cut, pale yellow, finely dotted with fawn and bearing some patches of fawn; flesh white, rather coarse, semi-melting, gritty at the center; juice plentiful and rich in sugar after the manner of sweet wine, little perfume; second; Oct. and Nov. =Angoucha.= =1.= _Guide Prat._ 82. 1876. =2.= Mas _Pom. Gen._ =7=:43, fig. 502. 1881.