Archbishop Sibour
The Archbishop Sibour pear variety was bred by Grégoire Nélis in Jodoigne and bore fruit for the first time in 1855. The breeder later named them after Auguste Sibour , the Archbishop of Paris who died in 1857. Alexandre Bivort described them as quite large with a rough skin, light green and later yellowish. Furthermore, brownish-red rusted and streaked. The flesh is yellowish white and juicy. The pear is high in sugar and flavorful. The harvest time is only in November.
Franz Jahn adds that it has a spicy, sweet taste and that it is not ready to be harvested until the end of November and into December. The tree is a little weak with fine branches that grow almost horizontally.
Individual evidence
- ^ Franz Jahn : Archbishop Sibour. In: Eduard Lucas , Johann Oberdieck : Illustrirtes Handbuch der Obstkunde. Volume 5: Pears. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1875, No. 500, pp. 499-500 .