Archive image from page 109 of Cyclopedia of hardy fruits (1922). Cyclopedia of hardy fruits cyclopediaofhard00hedr Year: 1922 FLEMISH BEAUTY FOX FLEMISH BEAUTY. Fig. 83. At one time Flemish Beauty was a leading commercial variety in the pear regions of eastern America, but it has been supplanted by other varieties because the toll of blighted trees is too great, and the fruits are too often disfigured by the scab- fungus. Perhaps the latter is the greater fault, as in some seasons no applications of spray 83. Flemish Beauty. (XVa) give the pears a clean cheek, and they are blackened, sca
Archive image from page 109 of Cyclopedia of hardy fruits (1922). Cyclopedia of hardy fruits cyclopediaofhard00hedr Year: 1922 FLEMISH BEAUTY FOX FLEMISH BEAUTY. Fig. 83. At one time Flemish Beauty was a leading commercial variety in the pear regions of eastern America, but it has been supplanted by other varieties because the toll of blighted trees is too great, and the fruits are too often disfigured by the scab- fungus. Perhaps the latter is the greater fault, as in some seasons no applications of spray 83. Flemish Beauty. (XVa) give the pears a clean cheek, and they are blackened, scabbed, cracked and malformed with fungus. Not infrequently the scab- infected foliage drops before the crop matures. To offset these defects, the trees are unusually fruitful, and as hardy as those of any other variety. The fruits are nearly perfect if scab- free, and properly matured. The pears must be picked as soon as they attain full size and be permitted to ripen under cover. So treated, a bright-cheeked Flemish Beauty is as hand- some as any pear, and is almost unapproach- able in quality, the flavor being nicely bal- anced between sweetness and sourness, very rich, and has a distinct muskiness that all like. Blight and scab condemn tree and fruit for commercial orchards, but a lover of pears should combat these troubles for the sake of the choice fruits. The parent tree of this variety was a wilding found in a wood near Alost, Belgium, about the beginning of the nineteenth century. Tree medium in size, vigorous, spreading, often with drooping branches, rapid-growing, hardy, productive; trunk smooth; branches thick, shaggy, bright reddish- brown, with large lenticels. Leaves 3i/ inches long, 1 inches wide, oval, thick, leathery; apex taper-pointed; margin finely serrate; petiole 2 inches long, usually slender. Flowers 1 inches across, in dense clusters, usually 7 buds in a cluster. Fruit ripe late September and early October; large, nearly 2 inches long, 2 inches wide, u
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