DOYENNE D'HIVER

Pear

Origin / History

Elliott's The Western Fruit Book (1865) classes DOYENNE D'HIVER as a foreign variety, and gives Coffin's Virgalieu as another name for it.

Not described in source.

Size: Medium.

Form: Roundish obovate.

Stem: Not described in source.

Cavity: Not described in source.

Calyx: Not described in source.

Basin: Not described in source.

Skin: Yellow, with a faint blush.

Dots: Not described in source.

Flesh and flavor: Not described in source.

Core and seeds: Not described in source.

Ripens in November.

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Described in 1 period pomological work

Found in 3 catalogs (1855–1900) from Massachusetts

Joseph Breck & Co. , Boston , Massachusetts — 1855
St. Helena Nursery , Howell Prairie, Marion County, OR (Marion Co., Ogn.) — 1864
Central Experimental Farm , Dominion Department of Agriculture, Agassiz, British Columbia (under test; Bulletin No. 3, Second Series) — 1900

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DOYENNE D'HIVER. Coffin's Virgalieu. Foreign. Medium, roundish obovate, yellow, faint blush. November.

— F.R. Elliott, The Western Fruit Book (1865)

Coffin's Virgalieu Duchesse de Bordeaux Easter Bergamot Figue d'Alençon Saint Herblain d'Hiver Sylvange