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Yay! I have waited for these for 13 years. [nerd alert] The tree came from the Irish Seedsavers Assciation who collected scion wood from a tree originally planted by Methodist minister John Wesley whilst he was visiting the Palatine community in north Co. Limerick in the mid or late 19th c.
This is quite possibly the variety "Clairgeau de Nantes". Rootstock is Pyrus communis - one of the reasons it took so long to fruit. But it's a difficult climate here for pears as well.
#gardening #pears
Well, it was time to harvest these lovelies. Now they need to sit for a while and then comes the interesting part.
In the meantime I might shoot a still life or three. 
Celebrating the harvest. Finally got around to taking a few photos before munching these. The taste doesn't blow your socks off, but it's not bad either for the cold "summer" we've had. Some found their way into delicious pear&apple cake.
@WesternExposure The waiting is important.
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I think that I shall never see
A pome as lovely as a tree.
-- with apologies, Joyce Kilmer