Winter Nelis pear
Winter Nelis pears for sale in New Zealand
GenusPyrus
Cultivar'Winter Nelis'
BreederJean Charles Nelis
OriginBelgium, early 1800s

The Winter Nelis pear is a deciduous pear tree growing to 8 m 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 the Flemish nobleman Jan-Karel de Nelis (1748–1834), who raised it from seed in the early 1800s. It was introduced to England in 1818 and to the United States in 1823[3][4]

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

In 1869, Edward Berwick planted the first commercial pear orchard on the Berwick Manor and Orchard in Carmel Valley, California, specializing in the Winter Nelis pear.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "403 Forbidden".
  2. ↑ "Your independent guide to pear tree Winter Nelis". www.gardenfocused.co.uk.
  3. ↑ "PEAR Winter Nelis". Waimea Nurseries.
  4. ↑ "Pear trees for sale – Buy fruit trees online – Free advice". Orange Pippin Fruit Trees (Europe).
  5. ↑ "Edward Berwick, Pear Pioneer of Peninsula, Is 91". Salinas Morning Post. Salinas, California. 27 Jan 1934. p. 1. Retrieved 2021-10-13.
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