FRUIT WHOLESALE
Fruit – Vegetable – Tropical Fruits
Fruit – Vegetable – Tropical Fruits
This fruit with its completely typical form and its green to greenish-yellow or with more easily turning red colour invites to consumption. Their full special flavour, usually somewhat more sweetish than apples, charms each palate.
Although the pear is too a popular fruit variety in autumn and winter it does not have the importance of the apple. Probably this is due to the fact pear trees require a milder climate than apple trees and pears are more poor in fit for storage.
But concerning the diverity of varieties the pear can keep up well with the apple. In the course of the time more than 5000 varieties of pears become generally known, however today only 25 are regularly cultivated and approximately 10 different varieties are brought to market.
The pear primarily originates from Europe and Asia. To first cultured varieties have been growed up before approx. 3000 year on the Greek Peleponnes. The Romans were enthusiastic breeders, they already distinguished between 40 differnt varieties according to their special characteristics. In Central Europe pomiculture was above all the thing of monasteries. However, the pears in this time were probably still quite hard, for it was recommended to cook the pears. Raw pears were considered as precariously, even poisonous. This opinion soon again changed and the sweet fruit achieved in correctly culinary honours at the time of French solar-king Ludwig XIV. Still today one can gaze age-old pear trees in the royal gardens of Versailles.
The most famous pear tree probably stood in the Orcus. According the Greek legend Tantalos, a son of Zeus, was send into the Orcus because of his bad acts against the gods and the humans. There he paid for his misdoings in front of a pear tree. If he felt hungry and wanted to eat the pears hanging obove, the branches snapped back as soon as he tried out to reach it.
With the Chinese the pear tree stood for separation and mourning. Somewhat more positively it was regarded with the Christians. Due to the marvelous white blooms it was considered to be as symbol of the Virgin Mother.
Abate Fetel, Anjou, Clapp’s Favourite, Conference, Good Louise, Guyot, Beurré Bosc, Packham’s Triumph, Williams’ Bon Chrétien.