IMPORTANT EXPLANATIONFrançais
All these photographs can figure with help of the national association of the croqueurs de pommes and the
botanical conservatory of Gap Charance that I hold to thank.
A lot of fruits come from my personnal orchard.
For all reproduction or copy, please consult me lescrets@pomologie.com
COMMERCIAL CRITERIA
PEARS sold in the trade correspond only to criteria of resistance useful to the culture and to distributors. A PEAR, to to be cultivated and sold has to resist to the transportation, to the stocking to diseases and to the time. Even so that, they undergo again very important chemical processings and very ominous for the health.
Nevertheless, nothing prevents producers to orient to a natural fruit culture, varied and oriented
to what we have lost : the taste and the GENETIC diversity.
The negative result : in the world so called civilized, trade does not cultivate and sell more than five or six varieties and always the same.
Demanded a change, leaves to pay more expensive the kilo, we will save in health and will find the pleasure.
GENETIC DIVERSITY
There exists more of 3000 varieties of pears whose you will find the list on this site.
The pear was the fruit number one in 19th century.
HOW TO BUY THEM
You can grow the Proposed varieties in your orchard. They have been chosen among the most remarkable listed in the whole world and have all a certain notoriety. They have made their proof and are worth the varieties of the trade and surpass them most the time.
Few nurseries nevertheless distribute the diversity and it is not injury to observe that it is not found more than in museums and orchards of the true fanatics.
Nevertheless, it would suffice only a few advertisement with beautiful photographs on a beautiful catalogues and praise merits.
you will find some adresses on this site in my repertory, but for most of these pears, it will be necessary you to graft them you same or to make them graft by a specialist. Grafts will be obtained by contacting associations of amateurs as the croqueurs de pommes or Nafex or Seed Savers for example .
