Cross between Broket July and Williams. Discovered in Norway. Very productive red summer pear. Crunchy, sweet medium sized fruit. Harvesting season: two weeks before Conference.
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Made for Thaddeus Clapp from Dorchester (Massachusetts), USA in 1860. Large fruits with regular shape. Very juicy. yellowish green pear with a red flush, with a late blossom time. Slightly rusty colour around the stalk. White, juicy and sweet flesh with little aroma. Harvesting season of this pear variety is in the second half of August. It is a typical summer pear with a short storage life.
From Denmark. Medium sized pear with good amount of flesh. Harvesting season: mid-September. Will keep into late October.
The Concorde pear is a juicy variety that is highly suited as a hand pear. It is a firm pear with a remarkably good flavour. This variety is a cross between the Conference and the Doyenne du Comice. Harvesting is from the last week of September to around the first week of October.
Condo is a green, self-pollinating pear with a sweet flavour. This variety is very productive, harvesting season is early October. Not suited for long-term storage.
Cultivated by the Maine & Loire horticultural society in Angers around 1840. This extraordinarily juicy pear has a very sweet flavour. Doyenné du Comice is a plum fruit with a short stalk and a yellowish green colour with a russet flush. The flesh is white. The harvesting season runs from late September to the second week of October.
Cultivated (24) in 1811 by beer brewer Charles-Louis Durondeau in Tongre-Notre-Dame in the province of Hainaut. Very fertile and regularly fruit-bearing. Just picked, the Durondeau has a rough, dark green skin with russet flush. As it matures, it takes on a warm gold-coloured skin. The flesh is white. The Durondeau has
a typical, bitter flavour. When harvested in September, this pear can only be used in the kitchen. From October, it makes an excellent dessert pear. The harvesting season starts in mid-September.
Red mutant of Doyenne du Comice. Red striped pear with a greenish yellow background. Harvesting season: second week of September.
Queen's Forelle is a cross between Nordhäuser Winterforelle and Madame Verté. The variety was cultivated by Manfred Fischer in Pillnitz, in greater Dresden. Queen's Forelle is an elongated green pear with a red flush. The flavour is crunchy, juicy and sweet. The pear keeps well. Harvesting season: late September.