RARE APPLES, RED COMICE PEARS & A TASTE OF FALL!

Alright folks, a lot of groovy goodies here.

It's the first week of fall and we have got it all.

But we're starting off with something really, really cool out of Oregon.

That's right, it's the Red Comice Pear.

This is the... let me see if I can pronounce this in French.

Douillenez du Comice.

That's the original name for the Comice pear, which originated in France many, many years at the horticultural center there.

The National Fruit Collection says the red Comice is a sport of the original Comice.

Duyenne du Comice, meaning it was developed as a natural mutation.

It just kind of grew.

And rather than being an entirely different pair, this just came right off of the Comice tree.

But it didn't start out quite like that.

What happened was the red Comice is an American pair.

The Comice is a French pair, so I guess it's a descendant.

of the French.

All of us Americans have descendants.

We are descendants of other folks from other countries.

And hey, that's what's happening with this pair here as well.

It was developed in 1960 on its own.

as a sport coming out of a tree.

But this wasn't exactly it.

It was still more of a green comice pear or a yellow comice pear with some red striping on it.

It looked pretty cool.

And then, like 10 years later, a fully red sport came out of a very similar orchard in the Medford area in Oregon, fully red, like this, even though it's a different pear, it's not a different pear, it's still a Comice pear, but it's a red Comice pear.

And Joan Morgan, in this book here, The Book of Pears, she describes the Comice as a sweet, with a sweet flavor, with lemony undertones and hints of vanilla and almond when fully developed when the flavor fully develops.

Alright folks, a lot of groovy goodies here.

It's the first week of fall and we have got it all.

But we're starting off with something really, really cool out of Oregon.

That's right, it's the Red Comice Pear.

This is the... let me see if I can pronounce this in French.

Douillenez du Comice.

That's the original name for the Comice pear, which originated in France many, many years at the horticultural center there.

The National Fruit Collection says the red Comice is a sport of the original Comice.

Duyenne du Comice, meaning it was developed as a natural mutation.

It just kind of grew.

And rather than being an entirely different pair, this just came right off of the Comice tree.

But it didn't start out quite like that.

What happened was the red Comice is an American pair.

The Comice is a French pair, so I guess it's a descendant.

of the French.

All of us Americans have descendants.

We are descendants of other folks from other countries.

And hey, that's what's happening with this pair here as well.

It was developed in 1960 on its own.

as a sport coming out of a tree.

But this wasn't exactly it.

It was still more of a green comice pear or a yellow comice pear with some red striping on it.

It looked pretty cool.

And then, like 10 years later, a fully red sport came out of a very similar orchard in the Medford area in Oregon, fully red, like this, even though it's a different pear, it's not a different pear, it's still a Comice pear, but it's a red Comice pear.

And Joan Morgan, in this book here, The Book of Pears, she describes the Comice as a sweet, with a sweet flavor, with lemony undertones and hints of vanilla and almond when fully developed when the flavor fully develops.