Conference Pear Origin Date_1600s conic with some reddish flush

conic with some reddish flush or stripes over green or yellow skin

It may be used for cooking and is especially good for making apple sauce

Origin Date: Minnesota 1868

According to apple historian

And it has a faint but discernible cinnamon spiciness

Conference Pear Origin Date_1600s conic with some reddish flushUSDA Certified Organic The Conference pear tree is one of the first English pears of note to arise from controlled breeding program in England in the 1800's The Conference pear tree was bred by Thomas Francis Rivers at his family nursery in England. He first announced it to the public at a 'Pear Congress' in 1885, which had been advertised as a 'Pear Conference', the name he settled with, but it could have easily been called the Congress pear. The