Poirier de Jardin
PearPoirier de Jardin
Origin / History
Origin unknown; probably French. Documented in Duhamel's Traité des Arbres Fruitiers (1768, Vol. 2, p. 143, Pl. XIX, fig. 3) and referenced in Downing's Fruits and Fruit Trees of America (1869).
Fruit
Size: Large.
Form: Globular-oblate, orange-shaped.
Surface: A little bossed.
Skin / Color: On the side of the sun, a beautiful deep red, spotted with golden-yellow. The shaded side is streaked and rayed with bright red on yellow.
Flesh / Flavor: Semi-breaking, a little coarse and somewhat gritty around the core. Juice sugary and of a very good flavor.
Quality: Good.
Season
December.
Tree
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)Poirier de Jardin.
- Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:143, Pl. XIX, fig. 3. 1768. Garden Pear.
- Downing Fr. Trees Am. 770. 1869.
Origin unknown; probably French. Fruit large, globular-oblate, orange-shaped, surface a little bossed, on the side of the sun a beautiful deep red, spotted with golden-yellow, the shaded side being streaked and rayed with bright red on yellow; flesh semi-breaking, a little coarse and somewhat gritty around the core; juice sugary and of a very good flavor; good; Dec.