Belle Julie

A heavy cropping pear with sweet juicy well flavoured fruit.

Origin: Belgium, 1842

Pollination: Belle Julie is self-sterile and would require a pollinator to produce a crop.Find pollination partners >

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History and description of Belle Julie

Raised by Dr Van Mons in Belgium who named it after his granddaugter Julie. First fruited in 1842.

Medium sized conical fruit. The green skin is rather thick and almost entirely covered with a rough brownish russet. The cream coloured flesh is tender, juicy and very sweet. Good, slightly perfumed flavour. Generally a heavy cropping variety.

Characteristics of Belle Julie pear trees

Use	Dessert
Colour
Flavour
Fruit size	Medium
Picking time	Early Oct
Season of use	Oct-Nov
Tree vigour
Tree habit
Fruit-bearing	Spur-bearer
Cropping	Good
Pollination date	21
Pollination group	D
Self-fertility	Self-sterile
Pollinators	Pollination partners