PEAR
2
YEAR OLD PEAR $25.00 EACH NO BULK DISCOUNTS
1-4
one year old WHIPS $25.00 EACH
5-9 WHIPS $20.00 10-99
WHIPS $17.50 (may be combined with apple and
plum for quantity discounts)
Pears should be spaced 16 –
20 feet apart and are vigorous trees. We are currently offering trees on OH97
and Pyrus ussuriensis rootstocks unless otherwise noted . Dwarf pears are
unavailable at the present time.
CLAPPS FAVORITE
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A
large summer pear, pale green to yellowish with a dull red sunny side blush
maturing to bright crimson. Flesh is creamy white, fine textured, tender and
juicy, good flavor. The tree is vigorous, upright and spreading, productive,
winter hardy, good in zone 4.
First raised by Thadeus Clapp of Dorchester, Massachusetts, around
1800. Best if harvested prior to becoming fully tree ripe to help
prevent core rot and the development of gritty stone cells.
DEMPSEY
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Originated
near Trenton in Prince Edward County, Ontario Canada and named for the
director of that district of the Ontario Department of Agriculture prior to
1906, Mr. P.C. Dempsey. From a seed of
Bartlett
, fertilized with Duchess d’Angouleme. The tree is vigorous and productive.
Fruit is large, smooth skinned yellowish green with brownish red cheek in sun;
flesh is white, fine grained, tender, almost melting, sweet and delicious.
Harvest late, in October.
HARDY
ORDER
NOW FOR FALL 2010 OH97 rootstock one
year old stock only
From
Boulogne
,
France
, dedicated to the director of the gardens at
Luxembourg
prior to 1900, Mr M. Hardy. A late pear medium sized, yellowish green with
light brown russet and russet dots, flesh is buttery and juicy, white, fine
grained, rich flavor, aromatic. Harvest October. Tree is vigorous and
productive. Excellent dessert pear.
FLEMISH BEAUTY SOLD
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Winter
hardy Bartlett type reliable in zone 4 and of excellent quality. Discovered by
Van Mons in East Flanders about 1810, quickly establishing itself as a leading
European pear, and with Bartlett among the first imported pears to be planted in
Ontario, particularly in the northern areas where Bartlett does not survive.
The
fruit is large with light yellow skin patched with a sunny side brownish yellow;
flesh is creamy white, buttery, juicy, rich, and sugary. Harvest September.
LUSCIOUS SOLD
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Bartlett
. Small sized, good off the tree and particularly good for canning and
preserves. Yellowish green, pick September, from
South Dakota
. Zone 3
MAGNESS SOLD
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NOVA SOLD
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NORTHERN BARTLETT
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developed in Northern Ontario as a Bartlett type with improved winter hardiness
( Bartlett pear does not usually survive long even in Canada zone 5 ); more
information available soon
PARKER ;
SOLD
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hardy pear for Canada zone 3-4
PATTEN SOLD
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3-4
RITSON SOLD
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[
A delicious dessert pear, which is
worthy of a place in every fruit garden; it is not surpassed for canning or for
pickling, having an aroma and agreeable flavor. Quality: dessert very good to
best; cooking very good. Origin:
Oshawa
,
Ontario
, with Mr. Wellington. In response to our inquiry, Mr. W.E. Wellington writes:-
“ It was my grandmother Mrs. John Ritson, who planted the seeds from a pear
which had been sent to her from
Boston
. The tree has always stood on my grandfather’s homestead as long as I can
remember” The original tree is now of immense size, probably over 30 feet
high, and about one hundred years old. ]
This passage was taken directly from the report “ Fruits of
Ontario
, 1906” issued by the Ontario Department of Agriculture. Today there are
roads in this area,
Wellington St.
, and
Ritson Rd.
, named for these families. The
tree is a vigorous upright grower; fruit is medium sized, yellow skinned with a
golden russeting and dotted darker russet; flesh is creamy white, fine, tender,
juicy,buttery, sweet, perfumed. Harvest October.
SUMMERCRISP
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resistance. Perhaps the best of the hardy pears for fresh eating off the
tree. From Minnesota 1986.
Small in size but tasty