Winter Nelis pear

Fruit of the Winter Nelis pear (watercolor from USDA)
Cultivar	'Winter Nelis'
Origin	Belgium, early 1800's(Jean Charles Nelis)

The Winter Nelis pear is a deciduous pear tree growing to 8m depending on rootstock, and is sparse and spreading in form. It is not frost tender. Its flowers are self-sterile and a pollinator tree is required that flowers at a similar time (its flowering group is D or 4).^[1] It is a late-season dessert pear. The fruit are medium in size and have outstanding storage properties for a pear, easily keeping for a couple of months. Hoggs Fruit Manual (1880s) describes it as one of the richest flavoured pears, flesh being yellowish, fine-grained, buttery and melting, with a rich, sugary and vinous flavour and a fine aroma.^[2] The pear is named after Jean Charles Nelis, who raised it from seed in the early 1800s. It was introduced to England in 1818 and to the USA in 1823^[3][4]

Winter Nelis pear, from The Pears of New York (1921) by Ulysses Prentiss Hedrick

References

Pyrus
Cultivars	Abate Fetel Bosc pear Choke pear Churchland pear Conference pear D'Anjou Endicott Pear Tree Harovin Sundown Huntington pear Le Conte pear Parsonage pear Pêra Rocha Stinking Bishop pear Taylor's gold Warden pear Williams pear
Species	P. amygdaliformis P. anatolica P. armeniacifolia P. boissieriana P. bourgaeana P. calleryana P. communis P. cordata P. elaeagrifolia P. hakkiarica P. nivalis P. oxyprion P. pashia P. pyraster P. pyrifolia P. salicifolia P. serikensis P. syriaca P. ussuriensis
Natural hybrids	Pyrus × bretschneideri Pyrus × sinkiangensis
Related topics	Herefordshire Pomona List of pear diseases Perry Tottori Nijisseiki Pear Museum World Apple and Pear Association
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