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

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