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Belle de Martigny

Pear

Belle de Martigny

Origin/History

First documented in Magazin of Horticulture 8:431 (1842). Exhibited by Mantel at the inaugural annual meeting of the New York Horticultural and Floricultural Society in New York, September 1842.

Tree

Not described in source.

Fruit

One specimen was reported as weighing 9 oz. All other characteristics — form, size, stem, cavity, calyx, basin, skin texture and color, flesh, flavor, and seeds — are not described in source.

Season

Not described in source.

Uses

Not described in source.

Other

Not described in source.

Book Sources

Described in 1 period pomological work

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Belle de Martigny. i. Mag. Hort. 8:431. 1842. Exhibited by Mantel at the first annual meeting of the New York Horticultural and Floricultural Society, held in New York, September, 1842. One fruit of this variety was reported as weighing 9 oz.

U.P. Hedrick, The Pears of New York (1921)