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Onward
An Engish dessert pear not unlike Comice with excellent flavour and good reliable cropping.
Origin: Surrey UK, 1947
Pollination: Onward is self-sterile and would require a pollinator to produce a crop.Find pollination partners >
British-grown 
All our bare-root trees are personally hand-grafted by our Nursery Manager and grown on at our nursery in Kent. We have Defra and Plant Healthy certification.
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History and description of Onward
Onward was raised in 1947 at the National Fruit Trials Wisley, Surrey, UK from a cross between Laxton's Superb and Doyenne du Comice.Medium sized, pyriform shaped fruit. Fairly smooth pale green skin ripening to yellow green. Pinkish red flush and patches of brown russet. Smooth, soft, juicy, creamy white flesh. Excellent sweet flavour with a little acidity.
Moderately vigorous tree. Very reliable good cropper. Not a good pollination partner for Doyenne du Comice
Characteristics of Onward pear trees
| Use | Dessert |
| Colour | |
| Flavour | |
| Fruit size | Medium |
| Picking time | Sep |
| Season of use | Sep-Oct |
| Tree vigour | Moderate |
| Tree habit | Upright-spreading |
| Fruit-bearing | Spur-bearer |
| Cropping | Good |
| Disease resistance | Scab - Slightly resistant |
| Suitable for | Northern Britain |
| Pollination date | 23 |
| Pollination group | E |
| Self-fertility | Self-sterile |
| Incompatibility group | 3 |
| Pollinators | Pollination partners |
| Parentage | Doyenne du Comice |
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