Dessert pear of excellent quality. Smooth, dense, juicy and sweet. Large yellow fruit, often partly or entirely russeted, ripens a week or two later than Bartlett, which it resembles in size and shape. Stores well. Introduced to us by Fedco grower John Meader who wrote in the note he included with the fruit, “I had a dozen or so high up in the tree that were better specimens but the wind dropped them while I was unaware, and a flock of turkeys ate the drops—it’s always something.”

Upright vigorous productive (tall!) tree. Quite hardy. Z3/4. Maine Grown. (2½-6' bare-root trees)