PASSE CRASSANE
Origin:M. Boisbunel, France, about 1845.
Number one winter pear in Italy.
Additional: Passe-Crassane Pear is a variety developed by M. Boisbunel which was a nurseryman from Rouen, France. The pear was first available in 1845. Little more is known about the favorite pear in France.
AURORA aka (NY7620)
Origin: Marguerite Marillat x Williams’,
selected in 1950, named 1964, at New York
Agricultural Experimental Station, Geneva, USA.
BEURRÉ BOSC aka (KAISER ALEXANDER)
Origin: 1807, Open pollinated seedling, either
from Van Mons, Louvain, Belgium, or Haute-
Saone, France.
CORELLA
Origin: Probably a seedling of Forelle, Australia.
JOSEPHINE DE MALINES
Origin: Chance seedling from Major Esperen
of Malines, Belgium, 1830.
PACKHAM’S TRIUMPH
Origin: C.H.Packham, Molong, N.S.W.
Australia, about 1896. Thought to be a seedling
from Uvedale’s St. Germain x Williams’.
WILLIAMS’ BON CHRÊTIEN aka (BARTLETT)
Origin: Mr Stair, Aldermaston, about 1770,
introduced by Mr Richard Williams,
nurseryman, Turnham Green, England,
introduced by Tom Brewer, Roxbury,
Massachusetts, whose property became that of
Enoch Bartlett to USA.
Mock’s Red Williams’
(Sensation, Red Sensation)
Origin: Sport of Williams’. Walter Mock Snr,
Mahony Road, East Burwood, Victoria,
Australia, early 1930s.
WINTER COLE
Origin:Seedling of Winter Nelis raised by J.C.
Cole, Richmond, Victoria, Australia. Introduced
by J Brunning and Sons, late 1880s.
WINTER NELIS aka (HONEY PEAR)
Origin:Seedling from M. Jean Charles Nelis,
Malines, Belgium, early 1800s about 1814.
ABATÉ FÉTEL aka (ABBE FETELE)
Origin: Savoie, France, 1866, number one
pear in Italy
BEURRÉ HARDY
Origin: M. Bonnet, Boulogne-sur-Mer, France
about 1820.
BUTIRRA PRECOCE MORETTINI
Origin: Coscia x Williams’, bred by Morettini,
Florence, Italy, 1956.
BUTIRRA ROSATA MORETTINI
Origin: Coscia x Beurré Clairgeau, bred and
introduced 1960 by Morentini, Florence,
Italy.
CLAPP’S FAVOURITE
Origin: Flemish Beauty x Williams’. Bred by
Thaddeus Clapp, Dorchester, Massachusetts,
USA, before 1860.
CONCORDE
PATENT (FLEMINGS)
Origin: Conference x Doyenné du Comice, F.
Alston, East Malling, England, 1968, selected
1977.
CONFERENCE
Origin: 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.
DR JULES GUYOT
(WILLIAM PRECOCE, FRENCH
BARTLETT, LIMONERA)
Origin: M. Ernest Baltet of Troyes, Belgium,
1870, introduced to USA 1885.
DOYENNÉ DU COMICE
(DECANA DEL COMIZIO)
Origin:Horticultural Society of Maine and
Loire, Angers, France, 1849. To USA 1850,
seedling selection.
ELDORADO
Origin: Chance seedling probably Winter Nelis
x Williams’ by R. Patterson, Placerville,
California, U.S.A. 1945. (South African strain is
like a very early Williams’, flowers 2-3 weeks
before Williams’ and matures just before
Williams’, known as Early Bon Chretien)
FORELLE
PATENT (FLEMINGS)
Origin:Originated in Germany probably early
1700s, red pear probably a parent of Corella,
U.S.A.
HARROW DELIGHT
Origin:Williams’ x Purdue 80-51 (Old Home x
Early Sweet), R.E.C.Layne, Harrow, Ontario,
Canada.
HOWELL aka (JONAH’S SEEDLING)
Origin:A seedling of Jonah, Thomas Howell,
New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A. 1840.
LEMON BERGAMOT
Origin:Synonym. Passans de Portugal, origin
doubtful, grown in South Australia.
PRECOCE DI FIORANI
Origin:Beurré Gifford x Coscia, bred by
Pirovano-Manzo, ISF, Rome, Italy.
ROGUE RED
Origin:Comice x (Seckel x Farmingdale
seedling 122) 1969 by Prof. Frank Reimer,
Oregon, U.S.A.
Cocktail Pears
RED FACE (FACCIA ROSA)
Origin: Sicily, Italy
SAN GIOVANNI aka (ST JOHN)
Origin: South Italy, mentioned since 1660
HOOD
Origin: Florida, USA. unknown origin.
FLORDAHOME
Origin: Hood x Tenn, Florida.
FLA 39-40
Origin: W.B.Sherman, University of Florida.
FLA 57-75
Origin: W.B.Sherman, University of Florida.
FLA 58-45
Origin:W.B.Sherman, University of Florida.
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