Long Mead Farm and Local Wildlife Site
  Long Mead County Wildlife Site
  • Long Mead Wildlife Site
    • The Farm
    • Our Habitats >
      • The hay meadow
      • The orchard >
        • Find the stories of the orchard trees
      • The river and reed bed
      • The fuel copse
    • Our plants
    • Collaborations
    • Long Mead Foundation
  • Thames Valley Wildflower Meadow Project
    • Meadow Restoration: step by step
  • Research
    • Soil Carbon
    • Invertebrate Diversity
    • Botanical Surveys
  • Outreach
    • Social Farming
    • NATURE RECOVERY NETWORK
    • Schools >
      • Schools Nature Recovery Network
      • School Visits
      • Teacher's resources >
        • Long Mead and the National Curriculum
        • Long Mead and History >
          • Famous Eynsham Apple Growers
          • Water meadows in history
          • Long Mead and River Thames before Tudor times
          • Swinford Toll Bridge and highwaymen: Tom, Dick and Harry
          • The Thames at Long Mead in literature
          • Risk Assessment of Long Mead
          • The Countryside Code
    • Worshops/Training >
      • Meadow Restoration
      • Teachers Workshops
      • Hedge-laying
      • Community Meadows
      • Art and Science
  • Awards & Media
  • Our Network Speaks: member, partner & expert voices

josephine de malines

Description

Raised by Major Esperen around 1830. Joséphine was his wife. One of the best late dessert pears, keeping until February or March. The flavour is excellent, the sweet pale pink flesh perfumed of roses. The fruit tends to be small, especially if not thinned, and the trees are not particularly vigorous. They thrive best in a warm spot. Pollination Group C

Red Comice
Dr Jules Guyot

Latin name: 
Type: 
Uses: 
Flavour:
Fruit colour:
Flowering time: 
Picking time:   
Eating/storing time:  

Size:  
Rootstock:   
Pyrus communis
Year planted: 2012

Contact; Catriona Bass                               

EMAIL [email protected]

LONG MEAD FOUNDATION (Charity number 1196294): Email [email protected]
​