Our Variety Assessment

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

Cornélie is an old Belgian early pear we would choose for flavour rather than storage. Picked firm in late August, it rapidly becomes melting, mild, exceptionally sweet and pleasantly aromatic. It opens the season with a genuine dessert pear. Ripeness must be checked daily, however, as the fruit stores poorly and quickly loses its fine texture when overripe.

Cornelie

Price range: 26,50 € through 59,75 €

Cornelie is a traditional sweet buttery French dessert pear.

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Dispatch generally takes place from late November to February, depending on the weather and the progress of lifting the trees.

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

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SKU: 1373 Categories: Dessert pear trees, Pear trees

Description

Cornelie is a traditional an early-season dessert pear. The pears are usually ripe towards the end of August, when the skin starts to turn from green to yellow. Pick them while they are still hard and leave them to ripen in a fruit bowl.

Variety characteristics

Variety origin

Belgian variety bred in Leuven by Jean-Baptiste Van Mons, whose seedling fruited for the first time in 1847.

Origin

Period of origin

USDA zone

Flowering

Eating / keeping period

Use

Sweetness / acidity

Disease resistance

Ploidy

Origin and identity

Parentage

Van Mons seedling, exact parents unknown

Synonyms

Désiré Cornélis, Docteur Célestin, Fondante des Célestines, Corénis

Growth and adaptation

Vigour and habit

Medium vigour, suited to both low-trained forms and standard trees

Quince compatibility

Good compatibility observed on BA29.

Disease behaviour

Scab

Low susceptibility to scab

Pollination

Compatible pollinating varieties

These varieties flower at a compatible time and are the most relevant matches in the catalogue. Flowering period: 3 - mid season.

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