Description

• Beurre Hardy Pear Harvest: Early to mid
• Description: Medium ovate pyriform shaped fruit
• Skin – cinnamon russet
• Flesh – white tinged with pink
• Tree – very vigorous, spreading with long oval leaf with slight attenuate tip, very small serrations
• Flowering group: 4 Pollination: Mid-late season varieties like Packham’s
• Taste: Tender flesh with a rose water flavour
• Storage: Doesn’t keep
• Uses: Eating Background: Raised in about 1820 by M
• Bonnet, a friend of Dr Van Mons, at Boulogne, France
• It was named after M
• Hardy, the director of the Luxembourg gardens
• Introduced in about 1940
• Moderately resistant to scab
• Fire blight susceptible, blast moderately susceptible and moderately resistant to mites
• It is used extensively as interstem on quince with other non-compatible varieties