Passe-Colmar des Belges
PearPasse-Colmar des Belges
Origin/History
Origin unknown but was found growing under this name in the collection of the Horticultural Society of Angers early in the last century.
Fruit
Size: Above medium
Form: Turbinate-obtuse and bossed
Skin: Yellow, dotted and streaked with russet
Flesh/Flavor
White, coarse, semibreaking. Wanting in juice and sugar. Sharp and acidulous.
Season
November
Quality
Third class
Other
Source: Leroy, Dictionnaire de Pomologie, 2:502 (1869)
Book Sources
Described in 1 period pomological work
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— U.P. Hedrick, The Pears of New York (1921)Passe-Colmar des Belges.
- Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:502. 1869.
Origin unknown but was found growing under this name in the collection of the Horticultural Society of Angers early in the last century. Fruit above medium, turbinate-obtuse and bossed, yellow, dotted and streaked with russet; flesh white, coarse, semibreaking, wanting in juice and sugar, sharp and acidulous; third; Nov.