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Garden Pear

Pear

Garden Pear

French name: Poire du Jardin

Origin/History

An old variety, valued for cooking.

Tree

Not described in source.

Fruit

Size: Large

Form: Roundish obovate

Skin: Yellow or yellow green, with a blush of broken stripes, red in sun

Flesh: Rather coarse, gritty at the core, sweet

Stem: Not described in source.

Cavity: Not described in source.

Calyx/Basin: Not described in source.

Core/Seeds: Gritty at the core.

Season

December

Uses

Cooking

Subtypes/Variants

Not described in source.

Other

Not described in source.

Book Sources

Described in 1 period pomological work

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Garden Pear.

Poire du Jardin.

An old variety, valued for cooking.

Fruit large, roundish obovate, yellow or yellow green, with a blush of broken stripes, red in sun. Flesh rather coarse, gritty at the core, sweet. December.

A.J. Downing, The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America (1900)
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