Description

• Flemish Beauty Pear Harvest: Mid Description: Spreading tree with drooping branches
• The fruit can sometimes be very large
• The flesh is yellowish-white, firm, becoming melting and tender
• Taste: Juicy, sweet, aromatic, with a slight musky flavour
• The quality is very good
• Uses: Eating Background: The parent tree of this variety is said to have been a wilding found in a wood near Aalst, East Flanders, Belgium, about the beginning of the 19th century
• It was cultivated under the Flemish name of Bosc Peer or Pear of the Woods
• About 1810, the propagation of the variety was taken up by Van Mons who introduced it a few years later under the name Fondante des Bois by which name it was known in Europe for many years