- 1Beurre Bosc
An attactive looking pear with good sweet flavour and reliable cropping.
- 2Beurre Superfin
A high quality pear but one needing a warm sheltered location.
- 3Black Worcester
An ancient and historic pear with very dark skin. One of the best traditional cooking pears.
- 4Catillac
One of the oldest and best of the cooking pears.
- 5Clapps Favourite
An excellent early dual purpose pear.
- 6Gorham
A good dual purpose pear with sweet musky flavour.
- 7Hessle
An old Northern English pear suitable for cooler regions.
- 8Pitmaston Duchess
An excellent old English dual purpose pear with very large exhibition fruit.
- 9Red Williams
A red sport of Williams Bon Chretien.
- 10Robin
An old English pear with small, sweet, bright red flushed fruit
- 11Seckel
A dual purpose pear with excellent flavour but requiring a warm location
- 12Starkrimson
A stunning bright red juicy sweet summer pear. A red skinned sport of Clapp's Favourite.
- 13Vicar of Winkfield
A very old cooking pear which produces an attractive vigorous tree.
- 14Williams Bon Chretien
Probably the best known and most widely grown pear throughout the world.
British-grown fruit trees