Hood Pear fills my requirement for a low-chill European pear with high fireblight resistance. There are better tasting European pears you could grow but they are in big trouble in my neighborhood. Still, the fruit I get from this tree is better than any European pear from a supermarket (because the supermarket fruit is not tree ripened). I spray it twice per year with a copper spray and it does great -- whereas the Flordahome variety I stock in pots needs treatment once per month.
I keep it pruned to about 7 feet total height as shown in the picture below. With the La Nina weather we've been having, the tree is putting out leaves, flowers, and setting fruit in February which it would normally do in April.
