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  • From: "Kieran &/or Donna" <holycow@frontiernet.net>
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] exploring early pears
  • Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 23:04:50 -0500

I've found a tree in the middle of town that has ripe fruit June 15 thru about July 1. I suspect it is the Early Harvest aka Chambers pear that was grown all around Louisvillle Ky in the late 1800's. This pear is mentioned in journals from Ontario thru Maryland where it originated, across Ky and into Indiana. Lucky put me in touch with James Lawson, now 83, owner and sole operator of the Lawson nursery in N GA. He has been selling the early "sugar pear" that was already cropping on property his family bought in 1906. The tree is still cropping in 2009. The fruit is short lived, ripe in June. He's really not all that far south of me. Years ago someone in KY sent him scions of a really early pear, and he noted the leaves looked an awful lot like his early pear. Then the guy sent him a shoebox full of fruit and it was identical to his. I figure we're right in between those two states, and anyway, the rather odd leaves on the local tree look much like the odd leaves shown on the Corvallis site for Early Harvest. Anyone else in the right part of the country know of a really early pear that actually comes in right with or even before Yellow Transparent apples? Donna Cookeville Tenn




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