Description

• Doyenne du Comice Pear Harvest: Late Description: Tree is vigorous, fairly upright
• Round oval smallish leaf with attenuate tip, very small serrations
• Fruit is turbinate, large
• Skin is greenish yellow with brownish red blush, patches of russet around stem and eye
• Disease Status: Moderately resistant to scab, susceptible to fire blight, moderately susceptible to blossom blast, susceptible to two spotted mite
• Chilling requirement: High Pollination: Late season, Beurré Bosc, Williams’, Beurré d’Anjou
• Taste: Pale yellow flesh, extremely melting and delicate, juicy with rich flavour
• Storage: Good fairly long storage, six months, scald, internal breakdown
• Uses: Eating Background: Horticultural Society of Maine and Loire, Angers, France, 1849
• To USA 1850, seedling selection