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Chapin Pear Scionwood (Spring 2025)


A seckel-type sweet pear that is fireblight resistant.

The tree is open, vase-form, productive, and vigorous. More importantly, it is highly resistant to fireblight making it a great pear for the home gardener.

Ready for harvest mid-August in NY, Chapin will ripen after about 2 weeks off the tree. This is a greenish-yellow, heavily russetted pear that is just a little larger than a Seckel (Sugar Pear). Like Seckel, one of its parents, Chapin is richly flavored, sweet, and aromatic. This is a snacking pear of the highest quality.

Chapin was bred in Geneva, NY by U.P. Hedrick. It was first introduced in 1945.

Volume Pricing

Premiums are included in the following prices if applicable. These prices are for regular scion. Add $1 for clean scion.

Quantity Chapin Pear Scion
1 $12.00
2-5 $8.00
6-10 $7.00
11-99 $6.00
100+ $5.00

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$12.00 ea.

This is the full retail price for orders of 1 scion. You can get these scion for as low as $5.00 each – see Volume Pricing above. More about Pricing & Grading.

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Clean vs. Regular

Our clean scion is harvested from trees grown on G.16, which is extremely sensitive to viruses. These trees would not have survived if the scion contained viruses. Our clean wood has not been lab tested. Regular = may contain one of the common latent viruses; this is not usually a problem and can be used with most rootstocks.

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The tree is open, vase-form, productive, and vigorous. More importantly, it is highly resistant to fireblight making it a great pear for the home gardener.

Ready for harvest mid-August in NY, Chapin will ripen after about 2 weeks off the tree. This is a greenish-yellow, heavily russetted pear that is just a little larger than a Seckel (Sugar Pear). Like Seckel, one of its parents, Chapin is richly flavored, sweet, and aromatic. This is a snacking pear of the highest quality.

Chapin was bred in Geneva, NY by U.P. Hedrick. It was first introduced in 1945.


The Fruit

Fruit Type

Category: Pear
Subcategory: European

Fruit Uses & Storage

Uses: fresh eating, baking, canning
Storage duration: less than one month (approximate, depending on storage conditions)

Fruit Appearance

Skin color: russeted
Flesh color: off-white

Fruit Origins

Parentage: open-pollinated seedling of Seckel
Origin: New York State Agriculture Experiment Station, Geneva, NY
Introduced in: 1945
Introduced by: U.P. Hedrick

The Environment

Calendar & Geography

USDA zones: 5 - 7
Chill hours: Not yet determined
Ripening date: Aug 13 (approximate, in New York State) 7 days before Bartlett

Diseases & Pests

Fireblight: Very Resistant

Pollination

Pollination Factors

Bloom group:
Is it self-fertile? N
Is it fertile? Y

Pollination Partners

This table shows the first few results from a full search for pollenizers of Chapin Pear. Please see our Pollenizer Search to run other queries and read how the application uses various factors. Also read more about fruit tree pollination.

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