Color plate from the book 'The Pears of New York' by U. P. Hedrick, published by the New York Agricultural Experiment Station in 1921, and scanned in by the US Department of Agriculture National Clonal Germplasm Repository at Corvallis, Oregon Concorde -a yellow skinned classically pear shaped variety. Pollenizers are Doyenne du Comice, Conference and Willian Bon Chretien. It ripens mid march onward. Conference -Medium large pear, rather long and thin, with green russeted almost smooth skin. The sweet, juicy, melting flesh is rich and aromatic, and has a slight pinkish tinge when it is ripe.
Conference is partly self fertile and a reliable and profuse cropper.
Doyenne du Comice -a large, somewhat dumpy pear, yellowish green often with a slight pinkish blush and thickish skin. Regarded as the finest flavored pear when well grown in conditions it likes. When well grown and properly ripened, it has extremely fine smooth flesh, and is oustandingly sweet as well as very juicy. When conditions don't suit it and it is not well grown and picked at the right time, it is grainy, poor, and somewhat astringent. For best results, it should be refrigerated before it is taken out to ripen.