Description
- Full sun
- Loamy, well-drained soil
- White blooms in spring
- Green fruit begins ripening in September
- Needs a pollinator
- Fruits in 3 years
- Extremely sweet and aromatic fruit
- Small, brownish-yellow fruits with a russet-red blush
- Slow-growing, productive, semi-dwarf
- Moderate resistance to Fire Blight
Distinctive, super-sweet, spicy flavor. Commonly called Sugar Pear. An heirloom variety brought from Europe in 1790. The brownish-yellow fruits with a russet-red blush are a small size perfect for snacking, pickling and canning whole. The flesh is fine-grained, juicy and extremely sweet with a rich, aromatic flavor unlike any other pear. Somewhat self-pollinating but yields increase with cross-pollination.
