Comte de Morny
PearComte de Morny
Origin/History
Exhibited by Marshall P. Wilder among a collection of 42 new varieties of pears at the Exhibition of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society in 1871.
Fruit
Size: Medium.
Form: Short-acute-pyriform.
Skin: Yellowish, with a red cheek a little obscured with russet.
Flesh/Flavor: Yellowish-white, juicy, sweet and high flavored.
Tree
Not described in source.
Season
Not described in source.
Uses
Not described in source.
Subtypes/Variants
Not described in source.
Book Sources
Described in 1 period pomological work
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— U.P. Hedrick, The Pears of New York (1921)Comte de Morny.
i. Mass. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 40. 1871.
Exhibited by Marshall P. Wilder among a collection of 42 new varieties of pears at the Exhibition of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society in 1871.
Fruit medium, short-acute-pyriform, yellowish, with a red cheek a little obscured with russet; flesh yellowish-white, juicy, sweet and high flavored.