Pre Order for winter 2025/26 from 1st May 2025
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Nursery Manager's recommended varieties
Cooking pear trees
Cooking pears fall into two categories. The first are eating varieties which are used for cooking. These are usually used for cooking before the soften. The second are old fashioned cooking pears which remain hard however long they are kept and never soften sufficiently to be eaten fresh.
1
Black Worcester
Pre-order from May
An ancient and historic pear with very dark skin. One of the best traditional cooking pears.
2
Catillac
Pre-order from May
One of the oldest and best of the cooking pears.
3
Williams Bon Chretien
Pre-order from May
Probably the best known and most widely grown pear throughout the world.
British-grown fruit trees