Varieties
Varieties of Pear
Which variety suits you depends on site, space and taste. Here are the Pear varieties with their particulars.
- ‘Alexander Lucas’‚Alexander Lucas’ is a productive, large-fruited autumn-to-winter pear that you can store well until December.
- ‘Boscs Flaschenbirne’‚Boscs Flaschenbirne’ (also Kaiser Alexander) you immediately recognize by its long, bottle-shaped fruit with the typical cinnamon-brown russeted skin.
- ‘Clapps Liebling’‚Clapps Liebling’ is one of the earliest pears ever, you can harvest it for the first time already in early August.
- ‘Conference’Conference is the most cultivated pear in Europe and one of the most reliable for your home garden.
- ‘Gellerts Butterbirne’You will find ‚Gellerts Butterbirne’ (also known as Hardenponts Winterbutterbirne) to be an elegant, melting autumn pear with a fine aroma.
- ‘Gräfin von Paris’The ‚Gräfin von Paris’ is a true winter pear, you harvest it still hard in late October and let it ripen in storage until February or March.
- ‘Gute Luise’You will find ‚Gute Luise’ robust, widely cultivable autumn pear with balanced flavor.
- ‘Harrow Sweet’This Canadian breed was selected specifically for fire blight tolerance and is therefore one of the safest choices for areas where the disease is around.
- ‘Köstliche von Charneux’The Köstliche von Charneux (also called Bürgermeisterbirne) is an old Belgian autumn pear valued for its good scab resistance and its heavy yield.
- ‘Novembra’A robust winter pear from the Pillnitz resistance breeding programme, which owes its name to its long storage life: in…
- ‘Vereinsdechant’The Vereinsdechant (Doyenné du Comice) is regarded by many as the finest tasting pear of all, a large fruited winter pear that you can store into December.
- ‘Williams Christ’Williams Christ is the classic summer pear and the basis of the famous Williams brandy.
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