Brougham
Pear[Woolhope Naturalists Field Club, The Herefordshire Pomona (1885)] Brougham Pear.
Nearly of the middle size, obovate. Eye open in a regularly-formed depression. Stalk short. Skin, yellowish russet. Flesh yellowish white, buttery, a little gritty near the core, sugary and rich. Season, November. This sort is highly deserving of cultivation where flavour, rather than size, is the principal object.
Note.—The Pear is as large as the Autumn Bergamot. I named it the Brougham Pear after Lord Brougham who approved of the fruit I sent him.
[A.J. Downing, The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America (1900)] Brougham.
An English variety.
Fruit roundish oblate. Skin greenish yellow, some russet. Flesh coarse, astringent. November.
[F.R. Elliott, The Western Fruit Book (1865)] Brougham.
Foreign. Fruit, below medium, obovate, yellowish russet; stem, short; calyx, open; flesh yellowish white, a little gritty, buttery, sugary; "very good." November.
[John J. Thomas, The American Fruit Culturist (1903)] Brougham. Roundish-oblate, greenish-yellow; coarse; astringent. November. English.
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— Woolhope Naturalists Field Club, The Herefordshire Pomona (1885)Brougham Pear.
Nearly of the middle size, obovate. Eye open in a regularly-formed depression. Stalk short. Skin, yellowish russet. Flesh yellowish white, buttery, a little gritty near the core, sugary and rich. Season, November. This sort is highly deserving of cultivation where flavour, rather than size, is the principal object.
Note.—The Pear is as large as the Autumn Bergamot. I named it the Brougham Pear after Lord Brougham who approved of the fruit I sent him.
— A.J. Downing, The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America (1900)Brougham.
An English variety.
Fruit roundish oblate. Skin greenish yellow, some russet. Flesh coarse, astringent. November.
— F.R. Elliott, The Western Fruit Book (1865)Brougham.
Foreign. Fruit, below medium, obovate, yellowish russet; stem, short; calyx, open; flesh yellowish white, a little gritty, buttery, sugary; "very good." November.
— John J. Thomas, The American Fruit Culturist (1903)Brougham. Roundish-oblate, greenish-yellow; coarse; astringent. November. English.