PEAR

FLORDAHOME

Low-chill pear from Florida. Very nice quality: sweet, smooth-textured, juicy, flavorful. Harvest July/August in southern California. Early bloom. Chilling requirement less than 400 hours. Partly self-fruitful or pollenize with Hood.

HOOD

150-250 hours. Large, smooth, yellow-green skin. Sweet, mild pear flavor. Tree is upright and spreading. Highly resistant to fireblight. Best pollenized by Flordahome.  Ripens mid to late July.

SECKEL

Connoisseurs' favorite. Sweet, flavorful, spicy, aromatic, perhaps the best. Russet brown skin. Resists fire- blight. 500 hours. Full crop 800 hours. Self-fruitful in arid West.