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Pear Conference
Pear Conference
€18.00
Pear Conference The most reliable pear for Irish gardens, giving heavy, regular crops even in less than perfect conditions. A mid- to late-season dessert pear, ready in late October. The fruit is long, juicy and sweet, with russeted skin, firm flesh and a good flavour. Also very good as a cooking pear. Pick slightly under-ripe, store in a cool, ...
Pear Doyenné du Comice
Pear Doyenné du Comice
€18.00
Pear Doyenné du Comice An excellent dessert pear with a very rich flavour; the taste is sweet and very full, everything you want from a pear. Excellent quality, but moderate crops, although older trees crop more reliably, however it does require a warm and sunny site to do well. Pear Doyenné du Comice was bred in France at the Garden of Comice H...
Pear Durondeau
Pear Durondeau
€18.00
Pear Durondeau An attractive dessert pear-tree from spring to autumn, Pyrus communis Durondeau also has a compact habit, making it a good choice for smaller gardens. It’s a regular and heavy cropper, and the leaves turn brilliant red in autumn. The blossom has good resistance to frost, and the tree has some resistance to scab. The fruits are med...
Pear Emile d'Heyst
Pear Emile d'Heyst
€22.00
Pear Emile d’Heyst A very reliable dessert pear for our climate, bred in Belgium, Pyrus communis Emile d'Heyst is a tree with a spreading habit, not very vigorous. The fruit is small to medium-sized, with a yellowish-green skin with some russeting. The white flesh is firm, creamy and fairly juicy, with a sweet, sub-acid flavour. This pear is a h...
Pear Gin
Pear Gin
€18.00
Perry Pear Gin A very old perry variety from Gloucestershire, Pyrus communis Gin is used for high quality, mild-bittersharp perry with a flowery aroma and medium acid and tannin levels. Forming a slightly vigorous, spreading, spur-bearing tree, it’s a good cropper, though as it has a biennial tendency, it’s advisable to thin pears early. Perry p...
Pear Gorham
Pear Gorham
€18.00
Pear Gorham Bred in America from Pears William and Joséphine de Malines, dual-purpose Pear Gorham is hardier and more disease-resistant than its illustrious parents, but in Ireland is best trained on a warm wall. The fruit is medium-sized to large, conical, rather than pear-shaped, and yellow with big patches of russet; the flesh is juicy, melti...
Pear Williams' Bon Chrétien
Pear Williams' Bon Chrétien
€18.00
Pear Williams’ Bon Chrétien A seedling found in a Berkshire garden in the 1760s, dual-purpose Pear Williams’ Bon Chrétien, called Bartlett in America, is now grown all over the world – and is the pear most often found in tins! Large, conical fruit, golden-yellow with brown speckles, sometimes flushed red; the flesh is sweet, luscious and juicy w...
Pear Winnals Longdon
Pear Winnals Longdon
€18.00
Perry Pear Winnal’s Longdon A mid-season Gloucestershire perry pear dating from the late 18th century, Pyrus communis Winnal’s Longdon is a spur-bearing tree of moderate vigour and spreading habit, a heavy cropper, but with a biennial tendency and often slow to come into bearing. The pretty fruits are greenish-yellow flushed red and with some ru...
Pear Winter Nelis
Pear Winter Nelis
€22.00
Pear Winter Nelis A very old, late-season, long-storing, dessert pear, Pyrus communis Winter Nelis was bred in Malines, Belgium at the beginning of the 18th century. The fruit is no beauty, but has a marvellous flavour when grown in a warm, sheltered, sunny site or, better, trained on a warm wall. The pears are small and round with a dull green ...
Plum Belle de Louvain
Plum Belle de Louvain
€18.00
Plum Belle de Louvain A delicious culinary plum long grown in Belgium, Prunus domestica Belle de Louvain is particularly well adapted to northern climates. The fruit is very large, deep red maturing to deepest purple, with sweet yellow flesh, which is rather dry; this is what makes it such a good cooking plum, as pies aren’t drowned in juice. Co...
Plum Coe's Golden Drop
Plum Coe's Golden Drop
€18.00
Plum Coe’s Golden Drop A very old (1800), Suffolk-bred, late dessert plum, Prunus domestica Coe's Golden Drop has a luscious gage-like flavour derived from its Green Gage parent. The relatively large fruit is oval, pale gold freckled with red, with tender, juicy, yellow flesh and a superb flavour with a hint of apricot, perfectly balanced betwee...
Plum Czar
Plum Czar
€18.00
Plum Czar Bred in Hertfordshire in the 1870s, Plum Czar is primarily a culinary plum, but can also be eaten raw when fully ripe. Thrives even in northern areas, areas of heavy rainfall, and northern aspects. Medium-sized to large, deep purple fruit with tart, yellow-orange flesh, juicier and sweeter when fully ripe. Compact, attractive tree; re...
Plum Herman
Plum Herman
€18.00
Plum Herman One of the earliest-ripening plums, and probably the best of the early dual-purpose cultivars, Prunus domestica Herman was bred in Sweden, and is particularly well adapted to northern climates. The fruit is medium-sized and blue-black, with a non-clinging stone and yellow flesh, like that of its famous parent Czar, but with a better,...
Plum Jubilee
Plum Jubilee
€18.00
Plum Jubilee Also known as Jubileum, dual-purpose Plum Jubilee was bred in Sweden in 1985 and is well adapted to colder climates. Often seen as an improved version of Plum Victoria, though they are not near relations. Large, oval, deep red fruit turning purple when ripe, with a free stone and sweet, firm, juicy, yellow flesh with a good balance ...
Plum Marjorie's Seedling
Plum Marjorie's Seedling
€18.00
Plum Marjorie’s Seedling Found as a chance seedling at a Berkshire farm in 1912, late dual-purpose Plum Marjorie’s Seedling is widely grown commercially for all the reasons that make it a good choice for the home grower. The fruit, which can be picked as late as October, is large, with deep blue-black, bloomed skin; the flesh is greenish-yellow ...
Plum Opal
Plum Opal
€18.00
Plum Opal Bred in Sweden in 1925, Plum Opal is probably the best and most popular early dessert plum. The fruit is medium-sized, yellow mottled with purplish red, with very juicy, pale yellow flesh which is sweet when fully ripe, a free stone and excellent, gage-like flavour. Flavour is better if tree is wall-trained. The tree is vigorous, extr...
Plum Oullin's Golden Gage
Plum Oullin's Golden Gage
€18.00
Plum Oullin's Golden Gage Not a true gage but a gage-like plum, and easier to grow, dual purpose Plum Oullins Golden Gage was found as a chance seedling in Oullins, France in the mid-19th century. The fruit is large, round, and pale yellow, freckled with crimson, and with a bloom; the flesh is pale, transparent, fairly dry and and moderately swe...
Plum Rivers' Early Prolific
Plum Rivers' Early Prolific
€18.00
Plum Rivers’ Early Prolific Bred in the famous Rivers’ nursery about 1820, culinary Plum Rivers’ Early Prolific lives up to its name. The fruit is small to medium-sized, blue-black with a bluish bloom; the flesh is golden, juicy, and firm, with a free stone and tart, damson-like flavour. Ideal for cooking and jam but can be eaten as a dessert pl...
Plum Victoria
Plum Victoria
€18.00
Plum Victoria Found as a chance seedling in a Sussex Garden in the first half of the 19th century, dual-purpose Plum Victoria is supremely reliable in Irish conditions, tolerating cold, damp, and partial shade. The fruit is medium-sized to large, orange-pink ripening to a deeper red with a bluish bloom; the flesh is yellow, juicy, and firm, swee...
Plum Yellow Pershore
Plum Yellow Pershore
€18.00
Plum Yellow Pershore Also known as Yellow Egg, culinary Plum Yellow Pershore has been grown commercially in Worcestershire since early Victorian times, and is a good choice for cold conditions. The fruit is medium-sized to large, oval, and ripens to bright yellow with a bloom; the flesh is yellow, dry and firm, with a sharp flavour, perfect for ...