Pear, Conference

Description

Conference is internationally viewed as the definitive English Pear. Heavy cropping reliable pear with classic, long, pyriform shape and almost covered in a fine russet. The flesh is buttery and finely textured, creamy-white, firm, sweet and juicy and is sometimes salmon-pink tinged in the centre when perfectly ripe. Suitable for growing throughout the United Kingdom, and reliable even in unfavourable conditions. A good pollinator, but is popular as a garden variety as it is self-fertile but is better with a pollinator. Raised in 1885 in Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire and first exhibited in that year at the British Pear Conference, hence its name. It is now the main commercially grown variety in the U.K. and also in Belgium, the Netherlands and northern France and is produced in northern Spain.