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Old 02-11-2012, 03:27 AM   #9 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Richard View Post
Perhaps they're the Asian x European cross? You would know from the skin texture.
There just Asian. I used to know the Asian varieties well but haven't followed them much for 20 years or so. One's a yellow-skinned one and the other is a russeted brown one. Our family was friends with the farmer that used to rent this farm and we had some fruits from here back then. We always called the yellow one a Japanese pear and the brown one a Chinese pear. Kept it pretty simple. I had three trees of them here when I bought the place but grafted some of the brown onto one of the yellows and pulled two trees. The one tree still produces too much for me.

I always sprayed with alternating sprays of agromyacin and streptomyacin (sp? too late at night to check).
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