• Mid season eating pear trees

Fertility Pear

Pyrus communis

Fertility Pear Trees for sale - order online

We currently produce this variety to order only through our bud-grafting service. You cannot order on line. If you wish to order please contact us using the messaging facility on the contact us page. Let us have your name, postal address, telephone and email address as well as which variety you would like us to produce, how many and on what rootstock. Bud-grafting is carried out in late July and early August. The trees would be supplied approximately 18 months later. We normally need to have received orders by the beginning of July. Please click here for full details of our bud-grafting service.

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History and description of Fertility

Raised by Thomas Rivers, Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, UK from an open pollinated Beurre Goubault c 1875. Was grown commercially in the past.

Small, conical to pyriform shaped fruit. Rough, pale green skin ripening to pale yellow. Variable amount of russetting. Greenish white flesh with little flavour. Prone to rot in storage.

Moderate upright tree. Very heavy, reliable cropper. Needs thinning to produce reasonable sized fruit.

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Main characteristics of Fertility

Use	Dessert
Fruit size	Small
Picking time	Late Sept
Season of use	Sept-Oct
Tree vigour	Moderate
Tree habit	Upright
Fruit bearing	Spur-bearer
Cropping	Heavy
Pollination date	19
Pollination group	D
Self fertility	Self-sterile
Pollinators	Show suitable pollination partners
Progeny	Laxton's Foremost
Sports	Improved Fertility