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Fondante d’Automne is a traditional French late-season pear variety with a sugary sweet flavour, very typical of the dessert pears which became fashionable in Europe in the 1830s. It soon became popular in England and the Americas – it is described by the English fruit enthusiast Robert Hogg, writing in the 1880s as “a delicious autumn pear”. 

The fruits are of medium size, usually covered with a light russet, and they have a fine-grained buttery flesh. 

For best results, as with most pears, pick the fruits before they are fully ripe on the tree and ripen in a fruit bowl.