Bell Pear 4-6 ft branched tree

Excellent intense pear flavor and juiciness. Highly resistant to fireblight. Medium yellow fruit with red blush ripen in September.

Pollinate with another communis type pear.

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Pears are a great fruit for Central Vermont. Pears suffer from fewer pests and diseases than apple trees, making it easier to grow high quality fruit. Plant 20-30 ft apart. 

Tips: Prune pears minimally for the first 5-7 years unitl they are setting large crops, at which point you can begin heavier pruning. If they cannot put energy into fruit, they will forever fight you with vegetative growth.

Thin heavy crops, one fruit per 12 inches of branch is reasonable. Fruit size, quality, and ripening will improve, as will the next years crop.

Pear Pollination: The two different strains of pear, communis (European) and ussuriensis (Siberian), flower at slightly different times and will not reliably pollinate each other. Plant communis types with communis types, and ussuriensis types for most reliable fruit set. Also, some pear varieties produce very little pollen, making them poor pollinators for other pears. Plant at least two different varieties for pollination. If planting a poor pollinator, plant at least two other varieties from the same group. The more the merrier!

All of the pears have been grafted onto semi-dwarfing rootstocks. OHF87 is a bit smaller than OHF97.