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  • From: Lucky Pittman <Lucky.Pittman@murraystate.edu>
  • To: nafex@egroups.com
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] Re: Big 4 Commercial Pears
  • Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 08:09:23 -0600

At 03:39 PM 11/19/2000 -0800, you wrote:
>That might have been an old seedling rootstock that grew up. I've found
>such seedlings here that are quite old. Fruit is Bartlett-like enough to
>strongly suggest it's a Bartlett offspring, but quite astringent.

I've got little doubt that the old tree in question was one of several
seedlings planted by my middle-aged(well, at least a bit older than ME)
friend's grandparents on the old home place, where she now lives.
I hope the other pears, which have now succumbed to the ravages of time,
were better than this one.
Lucky Pittman
USDA Zone 6
Hopkinsville, KY


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