Bartlett Pear

The world’s most popular pear. Early mid-season, high quality, tolerates hot summers. 800 hours. Self-fruitful in arid West. Elsewhere, pollenized by Bosc, D’Anjou, Winter Nelis.

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Hosui Asian Pear

Consistently rated the best-tasting Asian pear at  fruit tastings.  Large, juicy, sweet, flavorful, refreshing, crisp like an apple.  Brownish-orange russeted skin.  Harvest early to mid-August.  450 hours.  pollenized by Shinko, Chojuro, Bartlett, or 20th Century.

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Seckel Pear

Connoisseurs’ favorite. Sweet, flavorful, aromatic, spicy, perhaps the best.  Russeted brown skin.  Resists fireblight.  500 hours. Full crop 800 hours.  Self-fruitful.

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Warren Pear

Excellent quality dessert pear—and highly resistant to fireblight. Medium to large, long-necked fruit with pale green skin, sometimes blushed red. Smooth flesh (no grit cells) is juicy and buttery with superb flavor. Good keeper. Cold hardy to -20°F. From Mississippi. 600 hours. Self-fruitful.

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Winter Nelis Pear

Small, roundish, russeted fruit. Juicy, aromatic, sweet.  Harvest late fall, keeps well.  Small tree.  Good pollenizer for Bartlett.  700 hours.  Pollenizer required.

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4 ’n 1 Pear

Multi-budded , disease resistant. With Warren: see description above, and with Blake’s Pride Pear:  a distinct blend of sugars, acids and other flavors give Blake’s Pride a rich, aromatic taste. This yellow and light-golden pear was developed by horticulturalist Richard Bell with the ARS Appalachian Fruit Research Station in Kearneysville, West Virginia. This excellent eating pear also is resistant to fire blight. Ripens 10 to 14 days after Bartlett.

—and with Harrow Delight Pear:  fireblight-resistant, with fruit similar to Bartlett. Yellow skin with attractive red blush. Smooth, fine flesh is especially flavorful. Ripe two weeks before Bartlett. Heavy-bearing tree. Introduced in 1982 (Ontario, Canada). 800 hours. Interfruitful with Bartlett, Bosc, D’Anjou and Moonglow.

—and Kieffer Pear: medium to large late season fruit. Canning/cooking. Sprightly flavor, coarse texture. Resists fireblight, tolerates hot climates. Dependable crops. 350 hours. Self-fruitful.

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20th Century (Nijisseiki “Apple Pear”)

Juicy, sweet, mild-flavored fruit is crisp like an apple. Early to mid-August in Central Calif. Keeps well. Easy to grow, heavy bearing small tree. 450 hrs. Self-fruitful or pollenized by Shinseiki, Bartlett, or other pear or Asian pear.

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