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Smith Duchess

Pear

Smith Duchess

Origin / History

Smith Duchess is an American hybrid of the Chinese Sand Pear. It is recorded in the Iowa Horticultural Society Report, page 101, dated 1883. U.P. Hedrick included it in The Pears of New York (1921).

Tree

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Fruit

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Book Sources

Described in 1 period pomological work

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Smith Duchess. i. Ia. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 101. 1883. An American hybrid of the Chinese Sand Pear.

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