also known as Parkins Warden/Pound Pear is a great cooker. Produces a heavy crop of large, dull green almost wholly covered fruit with brown russet. Often, many of the fruits have purplish flush. Cream, tinged green flesh that’s crisp and fairly juicy. An excellent stewing pear, best cooked slowly for 1-2 hours for it to soften. Beautiful clusters of white flowers and green oval shaped, slightly serrated leaves.