- 1Abbe Fetel
A delicious sweet juicy yellow dessert pear.
- 2Baronne de Melo
Small, golden brown, russetted pear with good aromatic flavour.
- 3Belle Guerandaise
An excellent old pear variety. Sweet with perfumed flavour.
- 4Belle Julie
A heavy cropping pear with sweet juicy well flavoured fruit.
- 5Bergamotte d'Automne
One of the oldest pears in existance possibly dating from Roman times.
- 6Beurre Bedford
A large very juicy firm fleshed pear.
- 7Beurre Bosc
An attactive looking pear with good sweet flavour and reliable cropping.
- 8Beurre Clairgeau
A good dual purpose variety but needing a warm location.
- 9Beurre d'Avalon
A beautiful old English pear with an exotic rosewater scent.
- 10Beurre Diel
A very fine flavoured dessert pear but requiring a warm location
- 11Beurre Hardy
One of the finest dessert pears. Tender, juicy and sweet with a hint of rosewater.
- 12Beurre Superfin
A high quality pear but one needing a warm sheltered location.
- 13Bonne de Beugny
A heavy cropping mid season pear. Very crisp and juicy with a pleasant sweet flavour.
- 14Bristol Cross
A good heavy cropping dessert variety suitable for wet regions.
- 15Comte de Lamy
A delicious, very sweet, soft and juicy pear.
- 16Concorde
An excellent modern dessert pear similar to Conference and suitable for most locations.
- 17Conference
The most widely grown pear in the UK. Suitable for most locations and partially self-fertile.
- 18Doyenne Blanc
A very old sharp juicy pear from Europe
- 19Doyenne Boussoch
An attractive looking rather round pear. Very crisp and juicy with a pleasant slightly acid flavour.
- 20Doyenne du Comice
One of the finest flavoured and most popular commercially grown dessert pears.
- 21Doyenne Georges Boucher
An very good old French pear with crisp juicy sweet flesh.
- 22Duchesse d'Angouleme
A very large old French pear.
- 23Durondeau
A stunning pear in the autumn with large golden fruit and crimson foliage.
- 24Emile d'Heyst
An old Belgian pear variety suitable for growing in northern areas.
- 25Eva Baltet
A large attrctive pink flushed pear.
- 26Fondante d'Automne
A good garden variety with sweet musky flavour.
- 27Gansel's Bergamot
A sweet aromatic mid season dessert pear with some acidity.
- 28Hacon's Incomparable
A mid season dessert pear which at its best can be highly perfumed and have a distinctive taste.
- 29Hessle
An old Northern English pear suitable for cooler regions.
- 30Highland
an American 'Comice' x 'Williams' cross
- 31Improved Fertility
An improved and partially self-fertile sport of Fertility pear.
- 32Louise Bonne of Jersey
An attractive red flushed pear with a distinctive, slightly acid flavour.
- 33Magyar Kobak
An excellent sweet, richly flavoured pear from Hungary.
- 34Marie Louise
A mid season dessert pear highly prized in Victorian England.
- 35Merton Star
A sweet perfumed mid season dessert pear.
- 36Nouveau Poiteau
A reliable heavy cropping variety with good but not outstanding flavour.
- 37Nuvar® Celebration
A new pear variety similar to Conference.
- 38Onward
An Engish dessert pear not unlike Comice with excellent flavour and good reliable cropping.
- 39Packham's Triumph
A heavy cropping dessert pear but requiring a warm sheltered location.
- 40Pitmaston Duchess
An excellent old English dual purpose pear with very large exhibition fruit.
- 41Plymouth Pear
A rare pear species, Pyrus cordata, bares very small fruits like a crab apple.
- 42Red Beurre Hardy
A red skinned sport of Beurre Hardy.
- 43Red Comice
A red sport of Doyenne du Comice.
- 44Reimer Red
An attractive and high quality red skinned pear.
- 45Roosevelt
A large sweet and juicy mid season dessert pear.
- 46Seckel
A dual purpose pear with excellent flavour but requiring a warm location
- 47Sirrine
A pleasantly sweet firm fleshed pear with attractive brown russet skin.
- 48Swan's Egg
An ancient pear named Swan's Egg because of the size and shape of the fruit.
- 49Thompson's
A quality dessert pear but requiring a warm location.
- 50Twentieth Century Asian Pear
One of the most popular asian pears grown in Japan.