Pear Saint Germain

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Pear Saint Germain is a fairly old winter variety from France. Until some time this variety was called "good louise", or "Bonne Louise Duhamel", this name originated in 1872. The Saint-Germain pear variety was intended for cultivation in the North Caucasus region. It is widespread in the Stavropol and Krasnodar Territories, Kabardino-Balkaria, Dagestan, Moldova, Ukraine, Central Asia and Armenia.

Pear Saint-Germain: variety description and characteristics

Pear Saint-Germain is a fairly large tree with a crown in the form of a regular wide pyramid. The branches are of medium thickening, as well as a large number of fruit branches.

The branches are gray and green at the same time, elongated, grow straight. Vegetative buds of ordinary size, have a kind of sharpening. The foliage is greenish with a grayish tint, of ordinary size, the leaf plate is folded along the central vein, the shape is rounded, resembles an egg, the upper part has a slight sharpening. At the edges, the leaves are finely serrated or have no serration at all, the petiole is rather thin, of ordinary size.

The flowering process of the Saint-Germain pear takes place in the middle. Flowers have a high level of resistance to bad weather in the spring season.

Characteristics of the fruit of the pear Saint-Germain

Pear Saint-Germain: photo of the variety

Saint-Germain pears have larger dimensions than usual, the shape of an elongated pear or oblong, resembling an egg, there are yields of different shapes. The skin is rather thin, but strong, almost does not react to impacts and strong squeezing during harvesting, initially the color is light greenish, and when ripe, from light greenish to yellowish. There are brownish dots throughout the fruit, there are especially many of them along the edges of the fruit, sometimes the dots merge into one continuous spot, and sometimes they form a brown mesh. There are no irregularities on the surface of the fruit. The fruit stem is of ordinary size, slightly curved, rather thick, located with a certain slope on the upper part of the fleshy tubercle, powerfully attached to the fruit. The saucer is small in size, with waves, rather powerfully rusted. The calyx is small, completely open, the sepals are arranged in asterisks. The heart is smaller than usual or ordinary size, the shape of a regular ellipse, located closer to the upper part of the fetus, is pronounced, granulation is not observed. The seed chambers are large, completely closed, the axis is slightly hollow. The seeds are dark brown in color, rather long, of ordinary size. The tube under the cup is funnel-shaped.

The flesh of the Saint-Germain pear is green and white at the same time, the density is ordinary, filled with juice, melts in the mouth, has a pleasant aroma, refreshes, has good taste.

The fruits of the Saint-Germain pear contain:

dry matter - thirteen point and nine-tenths of a percent.
sugar - seven point and one tenth of a percent.
titratable acids - thirty-five hundredths of a percent.
ascorbic acid - six milligrams per hundred grams.
P-active catechins - thirty-seven point and five-tenths of a milligram per hundred grams of raw product.

Removable ripeness of the crop falls in the last autumn month, consumer ripeness occurs in the second - third autumn months. In positively influencing conditions, the fruits can be kept until the second - third winter months. There is the possibility of transporting fruits over long distances, quite good. In packaging, the fruits can be transported even longer distances.

Saint Germain pears are quite tightly attached to the fruit tree.

The harvest is considered a valuable product for inclusion in the diet raw, and is also used for processing into dried fruits, as well as compotes of excellent taste.

Pear Saint-Germain grows well and bears fruit on pear and quince rootstock.

At the time of fruit-bearing, trees that have a pear stock begin to bear crops when they reach the age of six to seven years, on a quince rootstock, they begin to bear crops when they reach an age of four to five years. The amount of the crop is large and can be harvested every year. Pear Saint-Germain is average winter-hardy, only at a young age in very cold winter seasons freezing of flower buds is noticeable, young wood also freezes, which means that to create a garden of this variety, you need to select sheltered and warm areas. This type of pear grows well on rich soil with the required amount of moisture. It does not have a high level of resistance to diseases such as "scab" and "phyllostict".