Pears & Perry Pears
Pears & Perry Pears
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Hendre Huffcap
Pyrus communis maiden (vigorous): In stock £23.75A variety with desirable qualities producing a pleasant light perry of good quality. Pears different in shape to many other Perry’s being elliptical.
Harvest – early October
Pollination group – A -
Judge Amphlett
Pyrus communis maiden (vigorous): In stock £23.75Pears yellow or greenish yellow sometimes with a reddish flush on sun exposed side. Produces a very pleasant medium acid, low tannin, light perry.
Harvest – late Sept / early Oct.
Pollination group – A -
Littleton Late Treacle
Pyrus communis maiden (vigorous): In stock £23.75Named as Littleton Late Treacle, because the parent tree, in Littleton in the Vale of Evesham, has all the attributes of Late Treacle but with no actual Late Treacle’s to cross reference with the prefix has been added.
Harvest – early September. Pollination group – B
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Louise Bonne of Jersey
Quince C maiden (semi dwarfing): In stockQuince A maiden (moderate): In stock £23.75An attractive pear flushed deep red over much of the fruit. A reliably cropping pear of high quality with a citrus like taste to its juicy and melting flesh.
Pollination group – B
Pick – late September
Storage until – October -
Merton Pride
Quince C maiden (semi dwarfing): Out of stockQuince A maiden (moderate): In stock £23.75Produces large pears of excellent taste. Green skin that turns yellow with russeting. Flesh creamy white, juicy & sweet.
Pollination group – C
Pick – mid September
Storage until – October -
Moorcroft
Pyrus communis maiden (vigorous): In stock £23.75A deservedly widely grown Perry pear because of the high quality of its perry. Yellow green pears with russet at either ends or just around the eye.
Harvest – late September
Pollination group – B -
Oldfield
Pyrus communis maiden (vigorous): In stock £23.75The round fruits of Oldfield become green to yellow with russet at both ends. Produces a good quality medium tannin Perry. Grows into a small to medium sized tree for a Perry Pear.
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Onward
Quince A maiden (moderate): In stockQuince C maiden (semi dwarfing): Out of stock £23.75A quality pear – creamy white flesh, melting, juicy, with a rich sweet flavour. Medium sized fruit ripening to yellow green with pink red flush.
Pollination group – D
Pick – mid September
Storage until – October -
Pierre Corneille
Quince A maiden (moderate): In stock £23.75An excellent tasting handsome pear. The pears ripen to have a fine cinnamon russet over warm golden brown skin. The creamy white flesh is very juicy, melting, rich in flavour.
Pollination group – C
Pick – late September
Storage until – December -
Pitmaston Duchess
Quince A maiden (moderate): In stock £23.75Produces large long conical pears with yellowish white flesh which is melting, juicy and of nice rich flavour. Yellowish skin is largely covered with a fine russet.
Pollination group – D
Pick – late September
Storage until – October -
Winter Nelis
Quince A maiden (moderate): In stock £23.75A late cropping pear producing juicy sweet fruits. Round conical, the small to medium sized pears have a rough skin that turns yellowish green but is heavily russetted.
Pollination group – D
Fruiting – late October
Storage until – January -
Thorn
Pyrus communis maiden (vigorous): In stock £23.75A small tree in maturity with an upright habit. Crops well, producing pears of a good size and producing a very good quality perry.
Harvest – late September
Pollination group – B -
Thurston’s Red
Pyrus communis maiden (vigorous): In stock £23.75Also known as Dymock Red. The pears are pyriform or turbinate in shape becoming yellowish skinned with a red flush.
Harvest – mid October
Pollination group – B
