Benvie
PearBenvie
Origin/History A dessert pear of Scottish origin, adapted to the Scottish climate where it produces immense crops of excellent fruit in favorable districts.
Tree Not described in source.
Fruit
- Size: Small
- Form: Obovate
- Skin: Yellow-green, sometimes tinged with dull, dingy red on the side next the sun; almost entirely covered with thin, delicate gray russet; thickly strewed with russety dots
- Flesh and Flavor: Yellowish, buttery, juicy, perfumed; quality good
- Stem, Cavity, Calyx, Basin, Core, and Seeds: Not described in source
Season August and September
Uses Dessert pear
Subtypes/Variants Not described in source.
Sources cited:
- Mag. Hort. 9:130 (1843)
- Hogg, Fruit Man. 497 (1884)
- U.P. Hedrick, The Pears of New York (1921)
Book Sources
Described in 1 period pomological work
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— U.P. Hedrick, The Pears of New York (1921)Benvie.
- Mag. Hort. 9:130. 1843.
- Hogg. Fruit Man. 497. 1884.
A dessert pear adapted to the climate of Scotland where in some districts it produces immense crops of excellent fruit. Fruit small, obovate, yellow-green, sometimes tinged with dull, dingy red on the side next the sun, almost entirely covered with thin, delicate gray russet and thickly strewed with russety dots; flesh yellowish, buttery, juicy, perfumed; good; Aug. and Sept.