Description

• Josephine de Malines Harvest: Late Description: Moderate vigour, spreading
• Small long oval leaf with attenuate tip, very small neat pointed serrations
• Fruit turbinate, small to medium
• Skin is greenish yellow with slight russet
• Disease Status: Susceptible to scab and pear blast
• Chilling Requirement: Fairly high
• Pollination: Early to Mid-season, Packham’s
• Taste: Fine-grained, high quality flesh, juicy, excellent flavour, good storage
• Storage: Fairly long
• Uses: Eating Background: Chance seedling from Major Esperen of Malines, Belgium, 1830