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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Louise Bonne of Jersey
An 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
Produces 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
A 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 -
Onward
A 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 -
Pitmaston Duchess
Produces 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