Heirloom Pear Varieties in Watercolour
199 historic pear cultivars from the USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection (1886–1942)
Between 1886 and 1942 the U.S. Department of Agriculture commissioned artists to paint thousands of pear cultivars as official identification records. Browse the historic pears below — many are heritage varieties no longer found in shops.
Akarian
America
Angouleme
Anjou
Ansault
Arbre Courbe
Arnold
Austrian Vergaleuse
Ayer
B.S. Fox
Baldwin
Bartlett
Bartlett Select
Baseck
Beierschmitt
Belle Angevine
Bergamote Esperens
Bergamotte Heitrich
Beurre Baltet
Beurre d' Hiver
Bloodgood
Bon Chretien de Vernois
Bosc
Bossock
Buffum
Canners Japan
Cayuga
Cincincis
Clairgeau
Clairgeau x Howell
Clapp
Clapps Favorite
Cobert
Coles Winter
Comice
Conference
Conkleton
Coreless
Cornice
Crassane Bergamot
Crawford W. Long
Dana Hovey
Desportes
Deweys Premium
Dixie
Dorsett
Douglas
Doyenne d' Alencon
Doyenne DEte
Doyenne Jamain
Doyenne Levavasseur
Doyenne Sieulle
Drouard
Druard
Duchess de Bourdeaux
Duchess Precoce
Duchesse Bordeaux
Dudley Houghton
Duhamel du Monceau
Early Bartlett
Early Elliot
Early Harvest
Easter
Easter Bergamot
Easter Beurre
Eastern Belle
Edmundo
Elizabeth
English Jargonelle
Epworth
Erwin
Euverdael St. Germain
Favorita
Figue d'Alencon
Fitzwater
Flemish Beauty
Flemish Beauty & Louise Bonne
Florida
Florida Bartlett
Forella
Forella Birne
Frederick Clapp
French Jargonelle
Gansel Bergamotte
Gansel Seckel
Garber
Giffard
Glout Morceau
Good Christian
Goodale
Gray Doyenne
Groveland
Hardy
Hawaii
Heyst
Holland
Hood
Howell
Hybrid Seedling
Idaho
Japan Golden Russet
Johnsons Nameless Winter
Jones
Josephine
Jungferbirne
Karr
Kieffer
Kieffer Cross
Kieffer Most Green
Kieffer x Seckel
King Karl
Konig Karl von Wurttemberg
Kraus
Lamartine
Lancaster
Lawrence
Lawson
Lawson Comet
Le Conte
Liegel
Lincoln
Longworth
Lucrative
Lucy Duke
Lyerly
Lyman
Madam Treyve
Madam von Seiboldt
Magnate
Magnolia
Maynard
Michigan U.S. 431
Michigan U.S. 504
Michigan U.S. 550
Mikado
Moores No. 2
Moores Sugar
Mt. Vernon
Napoleon
Nuns Thigh
Ogerean
Olivier
Onondaga
Osbands Summer
Ovid
Ozark
P. Barry
Passe Crassane
Patten
Pear Apple
Peyton
Pillsbury
Pineapple
Pioneer
Pound
President
President Drouard
President Gilbert
Pulteney
Reader
Reading Winter
Reeder
Rossney
Rostiezer
Rutter
Sand
Seckel
Shaw
Shindel
Snyder
Souvenir du Congress
Spina del Carpio
Stuyvesant
Sudduth
Summer Beauty
Superfine
Swedish
Texas Iron Clad
Treyve
Triumph
Triumph de Vienne
Tyson
Ulm
Van Cott
Van Fleet
Vermont Beauty
Vicar of Winkfield
Victoria
Vinson
Wallis
White Doyenne
White Star
Wiest
Wilder
Wilder Early
Willard
Winter Bartlett
Winter Nelis
Worden Seckel