Conference

Triomphe de Vienne is a dessert pear with an attractive oblong shape. Its green skin shows many russet marks. It has bright white, extremely juicy flesh with a robust texture. The pear’s deliciously sweet flavour is accompanied by a common aroma.

Gieser Wildeman is a small, regularly shaped cooking pear. Its russet skin flushed with bronze is covered with grey dots. The pear’s firm, grainy, bright white flesh has a delicate sweet flavour and an excellent aroma.

Beurré Hardy is an average sized eating pear with a short, even shape. Its naturally russet colour includes a hint of bronze. Its flesh is white, soft and deliciously juicy. This pear’s flavour is heavenly sweet and it has a pleasant aroma.

Saint Remy is a squat, regularly shaped cooking pear. Its initially green skin shows russet marks and attractive bronze flushes and dots. The skin turns yellow as the pear ripens.

Doyenné du Comice is a squat, irregularly shaped, large dessert pear. It has green skin with a bronze flush, russet marks and dots.

Beurré Alexander Lucas is a dessert pear whose attractive regular shape broadens at the calyx. Its pale green skin ripens to yellow with russet around the stalk. Its bright white, exceptionally juicy flesh has a robust texture with a very sweet flavo

Abate Fetel is a pear with an oblong banana-like shape. Its skin is yellow-pale green with an orange-red flush. The pear has white, melting, exceptionally juicy flesh.

Anjou is a dessert pear with a very short neck that originated in France. Its pale green colour does not change as the pear ripens. Its white flesh has a surprising flavour.

Forel is an irregularly shaped crisp pear. Its golden skin has a bright red flush and dots. Its white, fairly firm flesh is moderately juicy. This richly aromatic pear has a sweet flavour.

The Guyot pear owes its name to Docteur Jules Guyot. It was originally a French pear that is now grown mostly in the southeast of France. Its initially green skin ripens to yellow with a slight gloss. Its soft flesh has a sweet flavour.

Packham is a squat, round, crisp pear whose green skin ripens to pale yellow. Its white flesh is extremely juicy. This pear has a good flavour combined with a muscat aroma.