- 1Beurre Bosc
An attactive looking pear with good sweet flavour and reliable cropping.
- 2Beurre Clairgeau
A good dual purpose variety but needing a warm location.
- 3Beurre Rance
A pleasant late ripening dual purpose pear.
- 4Beurre Superfin
A high quality pear but one needing a warm sheltered location.
- 5Black Worcester
An ancient and historic pear with very dark skin. One of the best traditional cooking pears.
- 6Catillac
One of the oldest and best of the cooking pears.
- 7Clapps Favourite
An excellent early dual purpose pear.
- 8Dr Jules Guyot
A heavy cropping early dual purpose pear.
- 9Gorham
A good dual purpose pear with sweet musky flavour.
- 10Hessle
An old Northern English pear suitable for cooler regions.
- 11Martin Sec
Best known as a culinary pear for compotes, pastries and drying.
- 12Moonglow
An early dual purpose pear from America similar to Williams.
- 13Pitmaston Duchess
An excellent old English dual purpose pear with very large exhibition fruit.
- 14Red Williams
A red sport of Williams Bon Chretien.
- 15Redbald
A red skinned sport of Williams Bon Chretien.
- 16Robin
An old English pear with small, sweet, bright red flushed fruit
- 17Seckel
A dual purpose pear with excellent flavour but requiring a warm location
- 18Starkrimson
A stunning bright red juicy sweet summer pear. A red skinned sport of Clapp's Favourite.
- 19Uvedale's St Germain
A very old English cooking pear producing very large fruit.
- 20Vicar of Winkfield
A very old cooking pear which produces an attractive vigorous tree.
- 21Williams Bon Chretien
Probably the best known and most widely grown pear throughout the world.
- 22Windsor
An early season dual purpose pear.