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  • From: "crmauch" <mauch1@aol.com>
  • To: nafex@yahoogroups.com
  • Subject: [nafex] Re: ultra hardy pears
  • Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 16:03:46 -0000

According to the Raintree Nursery Web Site:
http://www.raintreenursery.com/catalog/ProductDetails.cfm?
ProductID=B200

Rescue is only hardy from zones 5 - 9

Chris Mauchline
SE PA, zone 6

--- In nafex@y..., "fuwafuwaosagi" <fuwafuwausagi@m...> wrote:
> In reference to Rescue pear. I have attempted to grow
Rescue "here"
> (zone 4b/5a) for a few years on OHxF333 without success. It grows
> in a manner similar to Bosc, which simply is not hardy here. Sort
of
> a progression of two steps forward, one step back, and then every
few
> years 5 steps back :)
>
> Rescue has a very inconsistent reputation. I have heard it is
> fantastic in some years, and inspid in others form the same
> growers. When it is good it is supposedly very good, and when it
is
> bad, it is very bad, along the lines of Kieffer. Unfortunately it
> does not stand up to canning nearly as well.
>
> I am tempted to tip graft this on another tree in order to actually
> get some fruit, assuming that every few year sit wil freeze out.
>
> Wishing all of you the very best in this most blessed of holiday
> seasons...may the Lord comfort you and keep you whole.
>
> the fluffy bunny
>
>
> --- In nafex@y..., Claude Jolicoeur <cjoli@g...> wrote:
> > Donna,
> > The only thing I have on Rescue pear is from "The Harrowsmith
book
> of Fruit
> > Trees" by Jennifer Bennett. It says: "Found growing near
Vancouver,
> rescued
> > after its owner's death by a nursery and recently released by
> Washington
> > State University, this is a reliable annual bearer of early,
orange-
> blushed
> > fruit, sometimes 6 in long, that is ready to harvest in late
August
> to
> > early September on the West Coast. The fruit will store until
> December. The
> > trees are upright, vigorous and productive. This is Benowitz's
first
> > choice, and he calls it "a showstopper" (Benowitz is the owner of
> Raintree
> > Nursery, Morton, Washington)".
> >
> > I hope this may help you... Unfortunately, I don't remember
having
> seen
> > something about it in Pomona. And there is nothing there that
could
> let me
> > suspect it would be a hardy variety.
> >
> > Claude
> >
> > A 07:07 01.12.27 -0600, vous avez écrit :
> > >I asked Bernie about the Rescue pear, and he'd never heard of
it.
> Do you
> > >all remember that some years ago it was written up in Pomona?


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