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Harrow Delight is an early season disease-resistant Bartlett-style pear. It usually has an attractive orange flush, and buttery melting flesh.
How to grow
Harrow Delight is cold-hardy to zone 4.
Harrow Delight is a very productive variety, and will tend to over-produce. It is therefore important to thin the fruitlets in late May / early June, this improves fruit size and flavor, and stops the tree lapsing into bearing only in alternate years.
It is not self-fertile, but will readily cross-pollinate with many other mid-bloom pear varieties, including Bartlett.
Harrow Delight (also known as AC Harrow Delight) was developed in the 1970s at the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada research station in Harrow, Ontario. The main focus of this program was disease-resistance, especially fireblight resistance.
Harrow Delight characteristics
Gardening skillAverage
Self-fertilityNot self-fertile
Pollination group3
Pollinating othersAverage
PloidyDiploid
Bearing regularityRegular
Fruit bearingSpur-bearer
WildlifeRHS Plants for Pollinators
Picking seasonEarly
UsesEating fresh
CroppingHeavy
Keeping (of fruit)2-3 weeks
General resistanceGood
FireblightVery resistant
ScabVery resistant
Cold hardiness (USDA)(4) -30F / -34C
Summer maximum temperaturesWarm (25-30C / 76-85F)
Country of originCanada
Period of origin1950 - 1999
Flesh colourCream
Fruit colorGreen - lightOrange flush
Fruit sizeAverage
Similar varieties
Harrow Sweet A disease-resistant heavy-cropping late-season pear with an excellent sweet flavor for eating fresh.