I’ve read wonderful things about the abate fetel. It’s one of the fireblight prone pears that like forel keeps coming up. It is a curators choice pear http://www.ars.usda.gov/SP2UserFiles/Place/20721500/catalogs/pyrcult.html . The eloganted fruit , aroma, flavor make it a pear well known by conosouirs. Bosc is another we probably should never try to grow in my area but almost certainly will try. Magness and Ayers are reported by so many people to be good disease resistant choices. I feel like deciding to grow those fb resistant pears was a neccesity here . Getting so much good advice from this thread! Thank you