Our Variety Assessment

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

Louise Bonne d’Avranches ranks among the finest autumn pears where scab can be controlled. Its attractive yellow-green, red-blushed fruit contains fine, melting, exceptionally juicy flesh with sweetness, acidity and a pronounced pear aroma. The tree crops regularly and has a degree of self-fertility. We would nevertheless reserve it for a bright, airy position protected as far as possible from prolonged rainfall.

Louise Bonne

Price range: 26,50 € through 59,75 €

Louise Bonne is a pretty red-flushed French pear variety with sweet melting flesh.

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: 4398 Categories: Dessert pear trees, Pear trees

Description

Louise Bonne is an old French pear variety, with a modern “bi-coloured” appearance – the yellow/green skin usually has an attractive red flush. As a bonus the blossom is also more attractive than most pear varieties (and has some resistance to frost damage).

Louise Bonne was rated by the Victorian fruit enthusiast Robert Hogg as “A most delicious pear“. The flesh is sweet and melting, with a pronounced pear flavour.

Judging the right time to pick can be tricky, but keep a close eye on it from late August onwards and pick the pears when they are flushed but still quite hard – then ripen in a fruit bowl.