• Early season eating pear trees

Merton Pride Pear

Pyrus communis

Merton Pride Pear Trees for sale - order online

Please select the rootstock, age and tree form available items in the table below. The choice of rootstock is important as it determines the size to which the tree will grow when mature. Trees are available either as maidens which are untrained one year old trees or two year old trees already trained in a particular form. Reduced price trees when available are smaller one year old trees or two year old trees which have less well developed heads than our regular trees but are otherwise perfectly good healthy trees offered at a lower price. Trees are supplied bare root during the planting season from late November to early March. Further information is available below.

• Information on rootstocks
• Information on tree forms
• General advice on choosing fruit trees

Rootstock / Vigour / Age / Form

Price

Quantity

Quince C - Dwarfing   2 years Bush

£28.50

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Quince C - Dwarfing   2 years Cordon

£26.50

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Quince C - Dwarfing   2 years Step-over

£31.00

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Quince A - Semi-dwarfing   1 year Maiden

£17.50

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Quince A - Semi-dwarfing   2 years Half Standard

£28.50

Sold out

Quince A - Semi-dwarfing   2 years Half Standard *Reduced Price*

£21.50

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Pyrodwarf - Semi-vigorous   2 years Espalier (2 Tier)

£48.50

Sold out

Pyrodwarf - Semi-vigorous   2 years Espalier (2 Tier) *Reduced Price*

£35.00

Sold out

Pyrus - Very vigorous   1 year Maiden

£17.50

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History and description of Merton Pride

Raised in 1941 by M B Crane at the John Innes Horticultural Institute, Merton, London, UK from a cross between Glou Morceau and Double Williams (a mutation of Williams Bon Chretien). It was first named Merton Favourite in 1953 and then renamed Merton Pride in 1957.

Large, conical to pyriform fruit. Rough, green skin ripening to yellow. Variable amounts of brown russet. Creamy white, soft, smooth, very juicy flesh. Excellent flavour.

A fairly vigorous, upright tree. Moderate cropper with some biennial tendency. Triploid and therefore ineffective as a pollinator.

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Main characteristics of Merton Pride

Use	Dessert
Fruit size	Large
Picking time	Sep
Season of use	Sep
Tree vigour	Vigorous
Tree habit	Upright
Fruit bearing	Spur-bearer
Pollination date	19
Pollination group	D
Self fertility	Self-sterile Triploid
Pollinators	Show suitable pollination partners
Parentage	Glou Morceau, Williams Bon Chretien
Other names	Merton Favourite