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Malvoisie de Landsberg

Pear

Malvoisie de Landsberg

Origin/History

Obtained by Judge Burchardt of Landsberg, Brandenbourg, Germany. Referenced in Mas Pomologie Générale 3:171, fig. 182 (1878).

Tree

Not described in source.

Fruit

Size: Rather large.

Form: Pyriform, more or less swelled, even in contour, but often irregular in form.

Skin: Somewhat firm. At first water-green, dotted with gray. The green changes to yellow at maturity, and the side next the sun becomes slightly washed with rosy red.

Flesh/Flavor: White, rather fine, buttery, juicy, sweet, acidulous. Flavor sprightly and somewhat musky. Overall quality rated as good.

Stem: Not described in source.

Cavity: Not described in source.

Calyx/Basin: Not described in source.

Core/Seeds: Not described in source.

Season

October.

Uses

Not described in source.

Subtypes/Variants

Not described in source.

Book Sources

Described in 1 period pomological work

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Malvoisie de Landsberg.

  1. Mas Pom. Gen. 3:171, fig. 182. 1878.

Obtained by Judge Burchardt, Landsberg, Brandenbourg, Ger. Fruit rather large, pyriform, more or less swelled, even in contour, but often irregular in form; skin somewhat firm, at first water-green, dotted with gray, the green changing to yellow and the side next the sun being at maturity slightly washed with rosy red; flesh white, rather fine, buttery, juicy, sweet, acidulous, having a sprightly and somewhat musky flavor; good; Oct.

U.P. Hedrick, The Pears of New York (1921)