Description
• Conference Pear Harvest: Mid to late season Description: Tree is moderately vigourous, upright
• Smallish oval leaf with attenuate tip, dull dark green, very small serrations
• Fruit is obtuse pyriform, small, with greeny yellow skin and red over half the surface or more
• Chilling requirement: Fairly low
• Disease status: More scab resistant, susceptible to fire blight and decline, moderately susceptible to blossom blast
• Pollination: Early season, need early bloomers to set well, can set parthenocarpically, Red Face, San Giovanni, Ya Li, Tsu Li
• Uses: Eating Background: Leon le Clare de Laval open pollinated seedling, introduced to England by Thomas Rivers, Sawbridgeworth, England, 1885, named for the National Pear Conference in England in 1885