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Clement’s

Price range: 26,50 € through 59,75 €

Clement’s pear is a high quality French dessert pear, very similar to Williams / Bartlett.

Choose your tree form

1 year old grafted tree – approx. 1–2 m

Half-standard – 1 to 1.5 m stem

Low-stem tree – approx. 60 cm stem

Standard tree – 1.8 m stem and over

Pear rootstock options

Kirchensaller – approx. 6 m mature height

Pyrodwarf – approx. 4 m mature height

Quince BA29 – approx. 3 m mature height

Quince BA29 with Comice interstem – approx. 3 m mature height

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Clement’s pear is a French dessert pear, with an excellent fondant-like sweet flesh. It can be considered as an improved Williams / Barlett (to which it is closely-related).

This is a pear for eating fresh, in early September. The pears have an excellent flavour but do not keep.

Variety characteristics

Variety origin

Variety rediscovered by the CRRG in 1981 at Clément Lamer’s in Englefontaine, in Avesnois. Genetic studies link it to a mutation of Merton Pride.

Origin

Period of origin

USDA zone

Flowering

Harvest period

Eating / keeping period

Use

Sweetness / acidity

Disease resistance

Self-fertility

Pollinator value

Ploidy

Origin and identity

Parentage

Mutation of Merton Pride, itself from Beurré d’Hardenpont x tetraploid Williams

Synonyms

D’Août Lamer

Growth and adaptation

Vigour and habit

Strong vigour, habit suited to low-stem trees

Quince compatibility

Compatibility unclear; use an interstem or a Pyrus-type rootstock.

Disease behaviour

Scab

Extremely low susceptibility to scab

Clement’s

Variety characteristics

Origin and identity

Growth and adaptation

Disease behaviour

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