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European Pear Trees

The soft, butter texture of a ripe pear with its wonderful fragrance, flavor and sweetness, is unsurpassed in tree fruits. We offers European Pears that are great for fresh eating. These varieties are listed first and are in the order of first ripening. They have been grafted on semi-dwarf O.H.F. X 333 rootstock. Plant two different varieties for cross pollination.

Next, we have listed Perry Pears, European varieties traditionally juiced to make an alcoholic drink comparable to hard cider.

Plant availability by Season Fall Winter / Spring Summer All

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SECKEL EUROPEAN PEAR (Pyrus communis)

Known as "the sugar pear" for its extremely sweet and highly flavored, aromatic fruit. Excellent as a dessert pear, sweet as candy when dried, and also used for canning. Seckel European Pear is a self fertile variety in warmer parts of the country. In the North, it may require cross pollination to bear well. Large crops of small yellow/brown fruit on a naturally semi-dwarf tree. Resistant to fireblight but scab susceptible. Hardy and widely adapted. Zone 4-9.

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