Our Variety Assessment

Its strengths, growing requirements and the conditions in which it performs best.

Comice remains our benchmark when eating quality is the only consideration. At perfect ripeness, its large pear has exceptionally melting, abundantly juicy and sweet flesh with a delicate aroma. It nevertheless benefits from proper thinning, good light and careful harvesting. The tree is less reliable and the fruit considerably more delicate than Conference, making it a rewarding but demanding cultivar.

Comice

Price range: 26,50 € through 59,75 €

Doyenne du Comice is arguably the best flavoured of all pears.

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

Farold 87 - approx 4.5m mature height

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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SKU: 6898 Categories: Dessert pear trees, Pear trees

Description

Comice is widely considered to have the best flavour of any pear. It has both the characteristic “melting” flesh of the highest quality pear varieties, along with a sweet richness and delicacy which others can’t quite attain.

Although originating from France it was also well-known in England by the late 19th century and the Victorian author Robert Hogg records several letters from fellow enthusiasts praising its “surpassing flavour“.