Fairly good pollinator. Harvest 3 to 3.5 weeks after Bartlett. Fruit quality is excellent for all uses. Good pollinizer for Bartlett. Harvest 3 to 4 weeks after Bartlett.
Fruit is small to average in size.
Ripens to a creamy yellow color with many conspicuous brown lenticels. Only use is as a canning pear. Harvest 5 to 6 weeks after Bartlett. The Asian or Oriental pear has been in this country since the late 1800s, but has not been planted regularly until the last 5 years. These pears, sometimes referred to as Oriental pears, Chinese pears, or Japanese pears, are considerably different from the old hard homegrown varieties like Keiffer and Seckel.