[NAFEX] Asian pears (was Atlantic Queen pear)

William C. Garthright billg at inebraska.com
Sat May 9 20:46:04 EDT 2009


> And as information I do think Stark Hardy Giant is the same as Olympic 
> as I sent them their original bud wood many, many years ago and have 
> seen their scion orchard more recently.


Thanks! I'd thought that the Starking Hardy Giant, Olympic, and Korean 
Giant were all the same thing, but it seemed like there was some 
disagreement about that here, last time I posted something about it. Or 
maybe it was the New Century/Shinseiki. Asian pears seem to be sold 
under various names, and Stark Bros. is terrible at renaming varieties.

But whatever you call it, the Starking Hardy Giant has grown into a very 
nice little tree with a perfect branching structure. I'm having a harder 
time with the New Century and a Hosui that I planted a year later. They 
don't seem to want to cooperate with me. :-)

Bill
Lincoln, NE (zone 5)

-- 
Someone had asked me why I didn't have bad entities - villains - in my 
stories, generally speaking, and my point was that the universe was a 
perfectly adequate villain. - Hal Clement



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