Description

• Marie Louise Harvest: Mid Description: Tree medium in size, vigorous, spreading, open-topped, hardy, productive; trunk slender
• Fruit is yellow, , netted and sprinkled with russet especially on the exposed cheek; dots numerous, small, russet, somewhat obscure
• Taste: Flesh yellowish-white, granular, tender, buttery, very juicy, aromatic, with a rich, vinous flavour; quality very good
• Uses: Eating Background: The Abbe Duquesne, Mons, Belgium, raised this pear from seed in 1809 and dedicated it to Marie Louise, the second consort of Napoleon the First
• The AbM passed the pear on to Van Mons, who in 1816 sent it without a name to a Mr
• Braddick of Thames Ditton, England, where in time it became one of the best-known pears