Thanks to Peaceful Valley Farm and Garden Supply (originally started by our founder Amigo Bob Cantisano), a collection of some of our favorite species and varieties  are available for pre-sale through their website for the 2024/25 Bare Root Season 

Felix Gillet Collector Trees

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Sugar

SKU 00190
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This pear originally from France where it was called Sucré, or sugar pear. This gem of a pear is buttery and sugar sweet, melting and slightly perfumed with lots of juice. The fine-grained flesh is wrapped in a thin skin with very low astringency. This is purely a delicious luxury dessert pear. Sweeter and much more fine grained than the Bartlett. It ripens in Smartville, Ca throughout July at 850' elevation. The tree is susceptible to fireblight, but manageable, and a bit of a slow grower.


The grandmother tree is located in Smartville of Yuba County at 850' along the the shores of the Yuba River. The first building in Smartville was a hotel built by John Smart in 1856 shortly after gold was discovered in the area. Hydraulic mining became popular in the area and soon washed away many tons of soil from the foothills. Until a major freeze in the 1970s, Smartville was the home of multiple citrus orchards.

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