It may not be the prettiest pear in the market, but when it comes to flavor, the Comice is the Cadillac of pears. Like the Anjou and the Bosc, the Comice is what we call a “winter” pear ...

Q. I planted a 5-gallon Comice pear tree three springs ago and it seems pretty happy espaliered along my west-facing block wall. But a few new leaves on three of the branches have some kind of ...

Smooth-skinned Comice is the dumpiest of pears with a squat body and a short ... They ripen best on the tree, and are often packed carefully, with a protective layer of insulation around each ...

January is the start of fruit-tree time, a brief window of ... Most people are familiar with store-bought pears such as 'Bartlett', 'Doyenne du Comice' (a.k.a. 'Comice'), 'Bosc', 'Anjou', 'Warren ...

The pears should come off the tree easily when you lift and twist them ... months before ripening them at room temperature. Anjou, Comice, and Bosc are all types of winter pears that require ...

Summer pears you can eat fresh from the tree. But all other varieties ... I like Doyenné du Comice very much indeed. Also, Fondante d'Automne (called Belle Lucrative in U.S.) is wonderful.

Summer pears, like Bartlett, don’t keep very well, but Packer told me that a Comice picked in September and stored cold would be perfect by Thanksgiving. I gazed at a tree of this plump specimen ...

Comice was bred in Angers in the 19th century, and Clapp’s Favorite was bred in Massachusetts in the mid-19th century. The Seckel pear was a single tree found growing in northern Delaware in pre ...