A disease-resistant heavy-cropping late-season pear with an excellent sweet flavor for eating fresh.
Harrow Sweet pear identification images
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USDA identification images for Harrow Sweet
The identification paintings in the USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection span the years 1886 to 1942.
Citation: U.S. Department of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection. Rare and Special Collections, National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, MD 20705.
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Origins
- Species: Pyrus communis - Pear
Identification
- Country of origin: Canada
- Period of origin: 1950 - 1999
- Fruit colour: Green / Yellow
- Fruit colour: Orange flush
- Flower colour: White
- Leaf colour: Green
- Annual cycle: Deciduous
- Flesh colour: Cream
- Fruit size: Average
Using
- Picking season: Mid
- Keeping (of fruit): 1-2 months
- Flavour quality: Very good
- Cropping: Heavy
- Fruit persistence: Ripens over a period
- Food uses: Eating fresh
- Food uses: Culinary
- Picking month: September
- Picking period: late September
- Wildlife: RHS Plants for Pollinators
Growing
- Gardening skill: Average
- Flowering group: 3
- Pollinating others: Average
- Ploidy: Diploid
- Vigour: Average vigour
- Precocity: Precocious
- Bearing regularity: Regular
- Fruit bearing: Spur-bearer
- Organic culture: Suitable
- Attractive features: Attractive flowers
- Attractive features: Attractive fruit
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Sunlight: Prefers full sun
- Growth habit: Upright-spreading / Vase
Climate
- Cold hardiness (USDA): Zone 5 (-29C)
- Climate suitability: Temperate climates
- Climate suitability: Warm climates
- Cold-hardiness: Cold-hardy
- Summer average maximum temperatures: Warm (25-30C / 76-85F)
Other qualities
- Disease resistance: Good
- Fire blight: Very resistant
Where to buy trees
The following tree nurseries offer Harrow Sweet pear trees for sale:
- Orange Pippin Fruit Trees (USA) United States
Harrow Sweet pear trees
Where to buy fresh fruit
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