Grafted European pear trees

(Pyrus communis)

Grafted to OHxF97 pear rootstock.

**Special Note: We only offer small first year grafted trees through our mail order business (larger trees available locally). To protect the young graft and avoid costly shipping surcharges we often have to head back our taller grafted trees before shipping.

Cultivar descriptions:

Bosc

Seedling introduced by Van Mons, Lourain, Belgium, 1807. Long-necked fully russetted fruit. Distinctive sweet rich spicy buttery flavor. White flesh. Large vigorous, tree annual bearer of huge crops. Good pollinator for other varieties. (Zone 4)

Clara Fris

High-quality dessert pear. Fairly unknown. Medium-sized yellow-green fruit is covered with gray dots. Buttery firm juicy flesh. Keeps for a month. Hardy tree. (Zone 4)

Dana Hovey

Thought to be a seedling of Seckel. Roxbury, Massachusetts mid 1800’s. Introduced by 19th-century fruit enthusiast Francis Dana. Sometimes called Winter Seckel because of its similarity to Seckel. Small rich golden russeted fruit. Intensely sweet tender storage pear with excellent flavor. One of the best tasting storage pears. Hardy, vigorous, adaptable tree. Scab resistant. (Zone 4)

Duchess

Seedling discovered in France, 1827. High-quality summer dessert fruit. Melting, juicy, sugary and aromatic. Medium-small roundish yellow fruit blushed red and covered with brown dots. Productive vigorous upright grower. (Zone 4)

Magness

Soft, juicy dessert pear of great fresh eating quality. Introduced by the USDA in the 1960's. Its parents are Comice and Seckel, both great pears. Medium to large slightly russeted fruit, yellow when ripe. Very disease resistant, especially fire blight. Ripens beautifully on the tree. Needs a pollinator. (Zone 5)

Seckel

Seedling tree found near Philadelphia in the early 1800s. Many peoples favorite pear juicy and spicy. Small fruit is russeted yellow-brown often with deep red blush. Eat ripe off the tree. Very productive annual bearing tree, easy to grow. Scab and fireblight resistant. (Zone 4)

Stacyville

Unknown origin. Stacyville, Maine. Introduced by John Bunker at Fedco. Fairly rare in the trade. Medium-sized  pears are light yellow with an orange blush. The sweet fruit has a delicious citrusy aftertaste. Good fresh eating but excels when cooked. Precocious and productive, large crops most years. Late Summer. Disease resistant, extremely hardy and very vigorous. Not a keeper. (Zone 3)

Warren

Thomas Warren, of North American Fruit Explorers fame discovered this pear in Mississippi, in 1976. Medium to Large, long-necked fruit is green with occasional red blush. The pears are described as very similar to Magness by many. Sweet, spicy and very juicy, buttery, silky flesh with no grit. Fire blight resistant. Good pollinator. (Zone 4)