Plant two pear varieties for best pollination. The flowers of most pear varieties can't pollinate themselves. Instead, they must cross-pollinate with a different variety to develop fruit. A different ...

More than 300 hundred years ago, a court painter to the Medici dynasty assembled all the pear varieties he could find growing in Tuscany and recorded them for his patron. Pears that were steely gray, ...

Autumn brings a new harvest of pears to market. This luscious fruit is somewhat overlooked, but that wasn't always the case. In England, an estimated 700 varieties of pear were grown during the 18th ...

As new varieties of apples have increased their presence in Washington orchards and on the nation’s grocery store shelves, pear growers are slowly but surely expanding their offerings. With most of ...

Pear trees are attractive enhancements to gardens and bear delicious, nutritious fruit. In Japan folklore, pears are believed to ward off evil and misfortune and were often planted near gates and in ...

According to the US Department of Agriculture’s Fresh Deciduous Fruit Annual report, Chinese pear quality has shown ...

The cactus pear is the Rodney Dangerfield of the fruit world, beloved by immigrants from parts of Latin America and the Mediterranean basin but largely ignored by most consumers in the United States.

Wanganui people are leading the way in pear consumption because growers have introduced them to new varieties at the riverside market, grower Nick Tripe says. The pear harvest began at his 9ha ...

YAKIMA — As new varieties of apples have increased their presence in Washington orchards and on the nation’s grocery store shelves, pear growers are slowly but surely expanding their offerings. With ...

A blushing pear developed in Harrow is the newest variety expected to help push a pear revival in Canada. One of the varieties, HW624, is a medium- to large-sized, juicy pear with eye appeal — a red ...