Pear Early Dubovskaya

Summer variety selected at the Dubovskoy Experimental Station for fruit crops of the All-Russian Research Institute of Fruit Growing, obtained by pollination of the Bere Zimnya Michurin variety with Lesnaya Krasavitsa. Breeders: V. A. Korneev and R. V. Korneev. Approved in the Volgograd region and undergoing state variety trials on trial plots across Russia (Astrakhan, Saratov, Rostov, Voronezh, Belgorod regions).

Trees medium-sized, with rounded crowns, strong trunks, and strong skeletal branches. Branches diverge from the trunk at nearly straight angles, arranged compactly. Bark on the trunk and main branches is smooth and gray.

Shoots are medium-sized, arched, brown, hairy. Buds are bent, large, conical, smooth. Leaves are medium-sized, elongated-ovate, long-pointed, with spirally twisted tips, green. Leaf blade is concave, hairless. Leaf margin is serrated and wavy.

Fruits are medium-sized (mass 125–130 g), with a correct short pear shape. Fruit color at consumer maturity is greenish-yellow with a diffuse reddish blush. Seed cavity is small.

Flesh is yellowish-white, tender, juicy, semi-oily, sweet, with excellent flavor. Fruits contain 13.1% sugars, 0.16% titratable acids, 8.0 mg/100g ascorbic acid.

Harvesting maturity occurs in the first decade of August. Consumer period lasts 15–20 days.

Trees begin fruiting on the 5th–6th year after planting as one-year saplings. Yield is high and annual. Cold and drought resistance in the Volgograd region is very high.

Fruits and leaves are resistant to scab.

Advantages of the variety: high cold resistance and yield, fruit quality and taste, resistance to scab.