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Beth
A very enjoyable early dessert pear. Pale green small to medium sized fruits which turn pale yellow. Creamy white flesh, sweet and juicy.
Picking time: late August
Storage until: September -
Beurre Hardy
Medium to large light green pears covered with large areas of warm brown russet. White, salmon tinged flesh very juicy with a good flavour.
Picking time: late September
Storage until: October -
Beurre Superfin
The round conical pears turn from green to yellow as they ripen with light brown russet. The flesh at its best is creamy yellow, melting and of excellent flavour.
Picking time: late September
Storage until: October -
Black Worcester
Oval pears turn to dark mahogany. A culinary variety that does not soften enough to eat as a dessert but stores really well. A pear with a long history!
Pick: late October
Storage until: March and later -
Barnet
A moderately vigorous variety that develops spreading head. Heavy cropping, starting at an early age. Russeted all over.
Harvest – early to mid October
Pollination group – C
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Blakeney Red
Pears quite large for a Perry pear. Yellow skin flushed red. Makes a good quality perry. Grows into a large tree, even very large in favorable conditions.
Harvest – late Sept / early Oct.
Pollination group – B -
Brandy
Grows to be a small to medium sized tree. It is a good cropper from an early age. Skin pale green or yellowish green that is flushed bright red.
Harvest – October
Pollination group – C -
Butt
Grow to be a large tree of spreading, even drooping habit. One of the later picked varieties in early November. Produces a good quality fruity perry.
Harvest Time: early November
Pollination Group: C -
Catillac
A long established culinary pear of high quality. When ready for picking the skin turns to greenish yellow with a dull red flush.
Pollination group – D
Pick – mid October
Storage until – April -
Concorde
Compact and heavy fruiting. Medium sized yellow pears with golden russetting. Sweet, juicy, melting pale yellow flesh. A good garden variety.
Pollination group – C
Pick – late September
Storage until – November -
Conference
The most well known pear. Reliable and heavy cropping. Medium sized pears with pale yellow flesh, melting, juicy, sweet and of good flavour.
Pollination group – C
Pick – late September
Storage until – November -
Doyenne du Comice
A fine pear of excellent flavour – the flesh at best is juicy, sweet & melting. Medium to large fruits nearly as wide as tall. Yellow, some with a pink flush.
Pollination group – D
Pick – early October
Storage until – November -
Gin
Of medium vigour with slightly spreading branching. Heavy cropping when it gets going. Pears have an almost round appearance.
Harvest – mid October
Pollination group – C -
Hartpury Green
A very old variety first mentioned in 1662. It produces round or oblate fruits that are harvested in the second half of October.
Harvest – mid October
Pollination group – A -
Glou Morceau
Pears are pyriform in shape, the green skin colours to golden when ripe. Its flesh becomes buttery, melting sweet yet with some sharpness.
Pollination group – D
Pick – mid Otober
Storage until – January -
Hendre Huffcap
A 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
Pears 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 -
Krymsk
Quinces are of a rounded shape and ripen to a golden colour. Shows good resistance to quince leaf blight. Pick during October. Self fertile.