Description

• Napoleon Description: The tree is hardy, vigorous, and an excellent bearer
• Fruit is large; obtuse pyriform
• Skin, smooth, bright green at first, changing as it ripens to greenish yellow, and sometimes a fine lemon-yellow, and covered with numerous brown dots
• Eye, partially open, with long erect acuminate segments, and set in a moderate depression
• Taste: Flesh, whitish, tender, melting, and very juicy, with a rich, sweet, and refreshing flavour Uses: A valuable dessert pear Background: It was raised by M
• Liard, a gardener at Mons, in 1808, and by him exhibited at the Pomological Society of Hennegau, where he received the gold medal, hence it was called Médaille
• The original tree was afterwards sent to Abbe Duquesne, and by him named Napoleon
• It was sent to this country in 1816 by Van Mons, and was the first of the Flemish pears received with an authenticated name
• Much confusion has arisen by the way both fruit and grafts of his seedlings had been sent over by Van Mons