image

St James Village Orchard

Details of the Tree at Grid Ref N2

Tree Details   
Grid Ref
N2
Tree Type Pear
Variety Conference
Rootstock Quince A
Date Planted 18 March 2010
Tree Description The most reliable of all pears. A long pale green fruit with silvery russet. Prolific and fertile, it will set a crop alone but the fruit is better if pollinated by another variety. A late October and November pear.
Comments Suggested by EK.
Orchard Map
'a circling row of goodliest trees loaden with fairest fruit, blossoms and fruits at once of golden hue appeared, with gay enamel'd colors mixed...   (John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book IV 146)