Pear Alexandrine Douliar

Pear Alexandrine Douliar is an autumn variety, it was obtained in France, in the city of Nantes, Douliar in 1849. The pear variety Alexandrin Duliar is intended for cultivation in the Krasnodar Territory since 1987 in the Piedmont and Prikubanskaya zones, also in the south of Ukraine, and has recently been cultivated on a huge scale in its homeland.

The fruiting pear tree Alexandrin Douliar is quite powerful, the crown is in the shape of a pyramid, but it is not thick. The branches are indirect, geniculate.

Pear Alexandrin Douliar: variety description and characteristics

Pears Alexandrine Douliar are much larger in size than our usual store copies. The mass of the fruits is one hundred and eighty grams, but sometimes pears weighing three hundred grams are found, the shape resembles an egg, with small tubercles over the entire surface. At the first stage of ripening, the peel is glossy, thin, light green; when ripe, it feels a little oily, yellowish, with small grayish specks and brown specks at the stalk; well-lit pears have a red tint. The peduncle is elongated, even or slightly curved, brownish, even or at an angle, with a small bell and the first tip. The funnel is small, narrowed with uneven edges. The saucer is of an ordinary size, with slightly uneven edges, the bowl is half-closed, in a small depression.

The flesh of the Alexandrin Douliar pear variety is snow-white, tender, filled with juice, sour and sweet at the same time, with a pronounced fresh smell, good taste, the taste was rated by experts at four points and one tenth points - four points and five tenths on a five-point system.

Features of the variety

Pear Alexandrine Douliar: photo of the variety

Pears of the Alexandrin Douliar variety contain twenty point and eight tenths of a percent of dry matter, twelve point and five tenths of sugar, twenty one hundredth of a percent of titratable acids, six point and seven tenths of milligrams per hundred grams of ascorbic acid, sixty-four point and four tenths of milligrams per one hundred grams of P-active catechins.

The harvest of pears Alexandrine Douliar is harvested in a state of technical maturity, the fruits ripen at the end of the first autumn month and are stored for fourteen to twenty-one days, if the pears are overripe, then the pulp will swell. In the refrigerating chamber, the crop is kept for three to four months. In positively influencing realities, the presentation of the crop is very good: the fruits are large in size, have an excellent appearance and amazing taste. It is possible to transport pears over long distances, but only if the fruits were harvested recently.

It is recommended to plant fruit-bearing trees of the Alexandrin Douliar pear variety in areas sheltered from the winds because of the high probability that the harvest will soon fall. On pear rootstocks, the harvest time comes in the fifth or sixth year. It adapts well and grows on a quince rootstock and begins to bear fruit when it reaches the age of four years, forms fruits at an accelerated rate, and upon reaching the age of ten to twelve years, thirty-five to fifty kilograms of pears can be harvested from each fruit-bearing tree. The yield is good and fairly regular.

The level of resistance to winter and cold is quite good, flowers are insensitive to low temperatures.The level of resistance to the scab disease is estimated at three to four points, but entomosporiosis quite often affects a tree, it is estimated at two to three points.

Pear Alexandrine Douliar is an autumn variety, it was obtained in France, in the city of Nantes, Douliar in 1849. The pear variety Alexandrin Duliar is intended for cultivation in the Krasnodar Territory since 1987 in the Piedmont and Prikubanskaya zones, also in the south of Ukraine, and has recently been cultivated on a huge scale in its homeland.

The fruiting tree is quite powerful, the crown is in the shape of a pyramid, but it is not thick. The branches are indirect, geniculate.

Pear Alexandrine Douliar: advantages and disadvantages

To the benefits Alexandrine Douliar pear varieties include:

• excellent response to quince stock.
• amazing taste.

To the disadvantages pears Alexandrine Douliar include:

• low level of resistance to fungal diseases.
• short crop maintenance period.

Thanks to the Alexandrin Dullar pear variety taken as a basis, breeders have created another pear variety, Alexandrin Dullar Ch Bere Napoleon.