The attention of passers-by was taken by the sight of four pears of exceptional size in a Dunedin fruiterer’s window. They were pears of the Doyenne du Comise variety, and their combined weight was 41b They were grown in Mr A. J. Hinton’s orchard in Erirnscleugh, Alexandra, on a graft, only three years old, and it is suggested that the fruit secured the whole benefit of the root system of the mature tree. The Doyenne du Comise commands a high value, as a table pear, on the Home market.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 April 1939, Page 9
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