Description

• Glou Morceau Pear Harvest: Early-Mid Description: Tree medium in size, vigorous, upright, hardy, productive, a regular bearer
• A small to medium pear
• The skin is light green in colour without russet with a little orange blush on the sunny side, but no russet
• Flowering group: 2 Taste: With a delightful light melting flesh, juicy and fine
• Uses: Eating Background: The Abbe of Mons, M
• Hardenpont, a pioneer in pear-raising and a worthy forerunner of Van Mons, raised this pear from seed about 1750 in his garden at Mons, Belgium
• The variety was introduced into France in 1806 by Louis Noisette, who had found it in the gardens of the Due d’Arenberg
• In 1820, M
• Parmentier of Enghien, Belgium, sent this pear to England under the name Glou Morceau
• (Glou, in the Walloon language, meaning delicious or dainty; morceau, French, morsel or bit; hence, the translation may be Delicious Morsel or Dainty Bit.)