Description

• Winter Nelis Pear Harvest: Late Description: Tree is slender, upright, willowy
• Medium small long oval leaf with attenuate tip, very small serrations
• Green-brown skin, mostly total russet
• Disease Status: Susceptible to blossom blast, moderately susceptible to fire blight and scab, maybe tolerant to decline, very susceptible to Nectria canker
• Very tolerant to two spotted mite
• Chilling Requirement: High
• Flowering group: Pollination: Late season, Winter Cole, Williams’, Beurré Bosc Taste: Tender, sweet, juicy, buttery flesh with fine vinous flavour
• Storage: Fairly long, eight months, internal breakdown
• Uses: Eating Background: Seedling from M
• Jean Charles Nelis, Malines, Belgium, early 1800s about 1814