Broom Park
Pear[Woolhope Naturalists Field Club, The Herefordshire Pomona (1885)] Broom Park Pear.
Fruit nearly middle-sized, roundish. Eye in a moderate-sized hollow. Stalk about an inch in length, moderately thick. Skin entirely covered with cinnamon-coloured russet. Flesh yellowish, melting, juicy, with something of a Melon flavour, sugary and rich. Its very peculiar flavour may be said to partake of the Melon and Pine-apple. Season, January. A sort highly deserving of cultivation.
Note.—The singular flavour of the Pear was noticed at Downton as well as in London. The tree is fine and first bore fruit in 1830.
[U.P. Hedrick, The Pears of New York (1921)] Broom Park.
i. Card. Chron. 209, fig. 1845. 3. Hogg Fruit Man. 538. 1884.
Raised by Thomas Andrew Knight at Downton Castle, Herefordshire, Eng.; it first bore fruit in 1831.
Fruit small, globular-obovate; skin green and rough, largely covered with brown-russet; on the side next the sun it is tinged with dull red; flesh yellowish, melting, juicy, rich, with something of a melon flavor combined with pineapple. This singular commixture of flavors is its principal characteristic; an excellent dessert pear; Jan.
[F.R. Elliott, The Western Fruit Book (1865)] Broom Park.
Foreign. Medium, roundish, brown. December.
[John J. Thomas, The American Fruit Culturist (1903)] Broom Park. Medium, roundish, greenish-yellow and dull red; coarse; juicy, sweet. January, February. English.
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— Woolhope Naturalists Field Club, The Herefordshire Pomona (1885)Broom Park Pear.
Fruit nearly middle-sized, roundish. Eye in a moderate-sized hollow. Stalk about an inch in length, moderately thick. Skin entirely covered with cinnamon-coloured russet. Flesh yellowish, melting, juicy, with something of a Melon flavour, sugary and rich. Its very peculiar flavour may be said to partake of the Melon and Pine-apple. Season, January. A sort highly deserving of cultivation.
Note.—The singular flavour of the Pear was noticed at Downton as well as in London. The tree is fine and first bore fruit in 1830.
— U.P. Hedrick, The Pears of New York (1921)Broom Park.
i. Card. Chron. 209, fig. 1845. 3. Hogg Fruit Man. 538. 1884.
Raised by Thomas Andrew Knight at Downton Castle, Herefordshire, Eng.; it first bore fruit in 1831.
Fruit small, globular-obovate; skin green and rough, largely covered with brown-russet; on the side next the sun it is tinged with dull red; flesh yellowish, melting, juicy, rich, with something of a melon flavor combined with pineapple. This singular commixture of flavors is its principal characteristic; an excellent dessert pear; Jan.
— F.R. Elliott, The Western Fruit Book (1865)Broom Park.
Foreign. Medium, roundish, brown. December.
— John J. Thomas, The American Fruit Culturist (1903)Broom Park. Medium, roundish, greenish-yellow and dull red; coarse; juicy, sweet. January, February. English.