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GIFFARD. (Beurre GiffarcL) 



A very desirable commercial pear for the home market. 



ORIGIN: a chance seedling about 1840, in the garden of M. Giffard, Angers, France. 

 TREE: fairly vigorous; a straggling grower; healthy; fairly productive. 



FRUIT: size, medium to large; form, pyriform conical; color, light green, with red 

 dots and marbling of red on the sunny side; stem, 1 inch long, stout, swollen at the 

 base, set obliquely; calyx, half closed, in a small, shallow basin. 







GIFFARD. 



SECTION or GIFFARD. 



FLESH: color, white; texture, melting, juicy; flavor, vinous, perfumed. 

 QUALITY: dessert, very good; cooking, best. 



VALUE: first class for home market. One of the most profitable of the early pears. 

 SEASON: early to mid August. 



