Pitfour Pear
PearPitfour Pear
Origin / History
First produced in 1830. Believed to be descended from the seed of the Swan's Egg Pear.
Tree
Not described in source.
Fruit
Size: About twice that of a Swan's Egg when grown in the same soil and climate.
Form: Resembles the Colmar Pear.
Flesh / Flavor: Perfectly melting; juice rich and sweet.
Season
Ripens in October and November.
Uses
Not described in source.
Other
Not described in source.
Book Sources
Described in 1 period pomological work
- The Herefordshire Pomona (1876–1885) — listed as The Pitfour Pear
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— Woolhope Naturalists Field Club, The Herefordshire Pomona (1885)The Pitfour Pear.
This is in size about twice that of a Swan's Egg when grown in the same soil and climate; and in form it a good deal resembles the Colmar Pear. It ripens in October and November, and in the last season (1830) the first in which it was produced, its flesh was perfectly melting, and its juice rich and sweet.
What the precise female parent of each of the above-mentioned varieties was I am not prepared to say; but I believe that all with the exception of the Foxley Pear, and possibly the Monarch, sprang from the seed of the Swan's Egg. The Moor-fowl's Egg I believe to have been the female parent of the Foxley Pear; and I doubt whether the Monarch does not descend from the Autumn Bergamot.