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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 -
Brown’s Apple
Early ripening, Brown’s Apple can produce very heavy crops of bright red flushed apples that are quite large for a cider variety. Produces a very good fresh sharp cider.
Flowering time – mid season
Harvest – mid October -
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 -
Major
Major is an early bittersweet variety being harvested from late September. Grown commerially to extend the harvesting season forwards. Apples of conical shape and small to medium in size covered with a pinkish red striped flush.
Flowering time – late / mid season Harvest time – late September
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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 -
Somerset Redstreak
Somerset Redstreak is an old bittersweet variety that is ready to harvest by early October. Medium sized shiny red cider apples about 50-60mm diameter conical in shape with somewhat flattened ends.
Flowering time – early/ mid season Harvest time – late September
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Ten Commandments
Produces medium sized red apples that are good for cider but are also nice eaten., Name comes from the ten red spots seen around the core when sliced across on some of the apples. Alone it will not make the best cider so is best blended with a bittersweet variety.
Flowering time – early season Harvest time – late September
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Thorn
A 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
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