Occasional research
–autumn/winter 2012/3.
(There are several reports in the newspaper from 1912 by
Alexander Sowman, County Horticulture Instructor
at Hutton Agricultural College, near
Preston, who was a keen pomologist and
who raised Sowman’s Seedling apple
variety,c1914).
Listed below- pear varieties
for planting in the Preston area.
“Well-known”
Autumn/Winter Nelis; Beurre Sterkman; Beurre Bosc; Beurre
Bachelier; Beurre Diel; Beurre d’Amanlis; Beurre Hardy; Beurre Superfin;
Catillac; Citron des Carmes; Clapp’s Favourite; Comte de Lamy; Crawford; Dr.
Jules Guyot; Doyenne Du Comice; Easter Beurre; Eyewood; Fertility; Fondante d’Automne; Gansel’s
Bergamotte; Glou Morceau; Hessle; Jargonelle; Josephine de Malines; Louis Bonne
of Jersey; Marguerite Marillat; Marie Louise; Marie Louise d’Uccle; Napoleon;
Olivier des Serres; Williams Bon Chretien.
“Uncommon?”
Cassante de Mars; Yat (Jutte).
Readers were urged to seek out Eyewood and Yat for their superior
eating qualities.
Other pears seen in the north-west
Autumn Bergamotte; Bellissime d’Hiver ; Beurre Bronze (stalk
does not accord with Hogg!);Beurre Capiaumont; Beurre Clairgeau ; Beurre Gris;
Bishop’s Thumb; Doyenne Boussoch; Emile d’Heyst ; Green Chisel (“Jack” pear?);
Uvedale’s St Germain. Many more.
“Local” Pears
Stone pear (Winter Hacking)- listed but not described in
Scott’s Orchardist(1873). Green Slipper- known in different areas of
Lancashire; Pig- nosed Pear (Notts);
“Toadback”(Cheshire);Tongue’s Seedling; Walton Weeper ( mentioned in
Preston Guardian).
Local names for well-known varieties??
Other “mysteries”
Grafts taken from many as yet unidentified, remnant pear trees
in the north – in all probability most will be recognised by the experts, but
not by me! As new trees start to bear fruit, details are being recorded,
photographs taken.
Anecdotal information –“Sugar pear” present Lyth Valley,
Cumbria ; “Ambrosia” still around N. Yorks
1940. In NW , concentrations of old orchards south- west of Preston and in south
Cumbria.
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