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Tasting notes and identification advice for apples, pears, plums, cherries and other orchard varieties.

Pear varieties

  • Hacon's Incomparable Pear
    A traditional high quality English pear, raised in Norfolk in at the start of the 19th century.

  • An attractive disease-resistant early-season pear with an orange flushed yellow skin, related to Bartlett and with a similar flavor.

  • Harrow Sweet Pear
    A disease-resistant heavy-cropping late-season pear with an excellent sweet flavor for eating fresh.

  • Honeysweet is a self-fertile small late-season sweet pear, with buttery flesh, related to Seckel.

  • Hosui Pear
    Hosui has perhaps the best flavor of any Asian pear - it is very juicy and very sweet.