Club dean
The club dean's pear or club dean, Doyenné du Comice or Comice belongs to the autumn pears . It comes from the experimental garden of the horticultural society in Maine-et-Loire in Angers ( France ) and was first described in 1850.
fruit
The fruit is large and irregularly round to conical with a gray-green to yellow-green fine skin, which can turn slightly reddish on the sunny side. It is covered with fine to coarser yellow-brown spots, rust streaks and spots. The calyx is small, short and pointed-leaved. It sits in a narrow depression surrounded by strong bumps. The stem is short, strong, and fleshy. Ripeness starts from the end of September to mid-October, and the fruit can be stored in the refrigerator until January. The meat is yellowish-white in color, fine, juicy, buttery, sweet and lightly seasoned. Due to its excellent taste properties, it is also more often referred to as the “queen of pears”.
tree
The tree itself is characterized by medium-strong growth with a pyramidal tip. It prefers light and not too dry soils and a warm climate with not too cold winters. However, due to a moderate and irregular yield from year to year, this variety is no longer of great importance today. It is susceptible to pear scab , bacterial blight, viral stony, and fire blight . Fertilizing varieties are: ' Boscs bottle pear ', ' Conference ', ' Gellert's butter pear ', ' Delicious from Charneux ', ' Williams Christ '.
literature
- Eduard Lucas , Johann Oberdieck : Illustrirtes Handbuch der Obstkunde. Volume 5: Pears. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1875, No. 408, pp. 315-316 .
- Hans-Jürgen Franzen: club dean pear. In fruit & garden. Issue 11, 2009, ISSN 0029-7798 , p. 411.
- Walter Hartmann (Ed.): Color Atlas of Old Fruit Types. 3rd, heavily revised edition. Ulmer, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-8001-5672-6 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pom. de Maine et Loire, p.9 (1850)
- ^ Service centers in the rural area of Rhineland-Palatinate
- ↑ Fire blight: Notes for house, allotment and orchards
Web links
- Variety description at BUND Lemgo
- Variety description ( Memento from April 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 189 kB)
- Club dean pear at the fruit growing consultancy Baden-Württemberg