"Doyenne" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that the flowers on some trees of an ancient variety, the doyenne galeux, were destroyed by frost: other flowers appeared in July, which produced six pears; these exactly resembled in their skin and taste the fruit of a distinct variety, the gros doyenne blanc, but in shape were like the bon-chretien: ...
— The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication - Volume I • Charles Darwin |
