NCGR accession is incorrect. SSR fingerprints indicate this accession is 'Vicar of Winkfield' and not 'Arabitka' Arabitka Pear description (translated from the Hungarian webpage by Google Translate 20 October 2014): The best early kortefajtank, which ripen at the same time the length pear barley, but the more valuable wheat worth the pear is a good week ahead. Origin unknown, probably kind of circle of Hungarian origin, with several types of spread, specially in the Danube and Tisza rivers. Selected by the Horticultural Research Institute (Korponay Gyula and Alexander Brozik) type. Fruit small, 35-45 mm in diameter, very broad, rounded, as wide as long. Lemon gold color and a small section of brown, brown washed. The flesh is white, with plenty Levu, szotyosodik later than the summer like pears. The taste is sweet and slightly fragrant. Ripening falls at the end of June, beginning to turn yellow when the green rind, consumption shifts to the beginning of July. Letter from a wide oval, almost round. Are characteristic thick, stubby brown comma. The crown is a powerful, emerging stronger kortefajtaknal other summer. Picking the fruit can be stored for about a week, if not overripe collected. Not quite ripe yet easily transportable. Very well fertilized. Partenokarpiara (crop development without fertilization) is liable. Regularly, plenty of room, located in lumpy fruit. The tree early enough to bear fruit. Rugged, unassuming kind. Growing demand for space is not significant, so the Plains tolerate heat, drought, both sand and clay. Birsen and wild pear rootstock are both developing well, but more extensive kind. Selected clones of being one of the tests later play a role in the smaller-scale works and popular for garden cultivation, both local and national consumption. -- from: http://www.faiskola.hu/novenykatalogus/noveny/1579-korte-pyrus-communis-arabitka.html