Can anyone recommend some pears that can hold their fruit load without breaking branches so often? I’d like to put in some more pears — the only mature pear I have is a Kieffer planted about 25 years ago by the previous owner. Every three years or so it bears so much fruit that it breaks its leaders and topmost branches, then spends the next couple years regrowing its top and the cycle begins again. The tree is too tall to thin the fruit at the top where the breakage happens. Are there varieties out there with stronger wood that don’t break off so much? Thanks