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Bristol Cross
A good heavy cropping dessert variety suitable for wet regions.
Origin: Avon UK, 1920
Pollination: Bristol Cross is self-sterile and would require a pollinator to produce a crop. Pollination partners
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History and description of Bristol Cross
Raised by Spinks at Long Ashton Research Station, Bristol, UK 1920 and introduced in 1931. Grown commercially on a small scale in the past.Medium sized, oval pyriform to calabasse shaped fruit. Yellowish green skin. Variable amounts of green or brown russet with some fruit almost entirely covered and some almost entirely clean. Yellowish white, slightly granular, juicy flesh. Sweet fine flavour.
Very heavy cropping variety. Good in wet areas and on heavy soils. Very poor pollinator of other varieties.
Characteristics of Bristol Cross pear trees
| Use | Dessert |
| Colour | |
| Flavour | |
| Fruit size | Medium |
| Picking time | Mid/Late Sep |
| Season of use | Sep-Oct |
| Tree vigour | Moderate |
| Tree habit | Upright-spreading |
| Fruit-bearing | Spur-bearer |
| Cropping | Heavy |
| Disease resistance | Scab - Very resistant |
| Suitable for | Wet Regions |
| Pollination date | 22 |
| Pollination group | D |
| Self-fertility | Self-sterile |
| Incompatibility group | 20 |
| Pollinators | Pollination partners |
| Parentage | Conference Williams Bon Chretien |
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