Left: D’Anjou grows well in the Pacific Northwest’s dry climate. Right: This photo was taken at the National Clonal Germplasm Repository in Corvallis, Oregon, where varieties are grown unsprayed to reveal their natural characteristics, such as the scab on these d’Anjou pears. Inset: Belgian physicist, chemist, and amateur pomologist Jean-Baptiste Van Mons is thought to have developed the d’Anjou pear almost two centuries ago. The Beurré d’Anjou pear—also known as d’Anjou or simply Anjou—was imported from Europe into the United States in 1842 by Boston merchant Marshall Pinckney Wilder, founder of the American Pomological Society. During his lifetime, Wilder tested […]