Pear Collection

The perfect collection to provide heavy crops of delicious pears for preserving, poaching or eating straight from the tree. Grow these varieties close to each other to improve pollination and increase crop yields.

• Collection comprises 1 tree each of:
• Pear ‘Williams’ Bon Chretien’ – Pollination Group 3 – Eating Pear – An early fruiting variety producing large yellow non-gritty fruits with an excellent sweet and juicy flavour.
• Pear ‘Red William’ – Pollination Group 3 – Eating Pear – This red ‘clone’ is just as sweet as the original William’s pear but with the added attraction of red skin and being slightly more dwarf.

• Pear and Quince rootstocks:
• Quince C/ Quince Eline/ Quince Adams – Dwarf reaching a mature height of up to 2.5-3m (8-10′)
• Quince A – Semi vigorous reaching a mature height of up to 3m (10′) to 4m (13′)

This variety is not self-fertile. For the heaviest crops it is best grown with another variety. If you only have room for one tree then make sure that a neighbour has a tree close by that can act as a suitable pollinator.

Estimated time to cropping once planted: 2 years.
Estimated time to best yields: 5 years.

Useful links:

How to grow fruit trees Fruit rootstock guide