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- From: "Joseph D. Postman" <postmanj@ucs.orst.edu>
- To: nafex@egroups.com
- Subject: [nafex] Re: Big 4 Commercial Pears
- Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 12:29:06 -0800 (PST)
Great discussion about the lack of new pear cultivars in the main
commercial North American markets! Thought you would all enjoy a quote
from J.B. Cornell in a report of The American Pomological Society:
"With the great and increasing development in the field of Pomology
naturally there should be and are numerous changes in varieties, many of
the old standards being eliminated and newer more desirable ones taking
their places. In the case of pears, we meet with almost an exception in
the whole line of fruits, for outside of the introduction of the
Orientals, the great commercial varieties of today, are varieties that
were produced nearly a century ago."
Here's the interesting part... That was written in 1904! Now it is a
century later, and the same few pears still make up the bulk of our
commercial production. Could it be that it's hard to beat the 'Big 4'?
There's certainly LOTS of diversity out there in the pear world.
- Joseph
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Joseph D. Postman, Pyrus Curator
USDA/Agricultural Research Service
National Clonal Germplasm Repository
Corvallis, Oregon USA
postmanj@bcc.orst.edu
www.ars-grin.gov/cor
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Re: [nafex] Big 4 Commercial Pears
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Re: [nafex] Big 4 Commercial Pears,
Kieran or Donna, 11/16/2000
- [nafex] Was: Big 4, now pear astringency, Lucky Pittman, 11/17/2000
- Re: [nafex] Big 4 Commercial Pears, Kieran or Donna, 11/16/2000
- Re: [nafex] Big 4 Commercial Pears, Richard J. Ossolinski, 11/16/2000
- Re: [nafex] Big 4 Commercial Pears, Claude Jolicoeur, 11/16/2000
- Re: [nafex] Big 4 Commercial Pears, Ginda Fisher, 11/16/2000
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Re: [nafex] Big 4 Commercial Pears,
Ed & Pat Fackler, 11/17/2000
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Re: [nafex] Big 4 Commercial Pears,
Sam Brungardt, 11/17/2000
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Re: [nafex] Big 4 Commercial Pears,
Tom Olenio, 11/17/2000
- RE: [nafex] Big 4 Commercial Pears - Apple comments, Gord Hawkes, 11/17/2000
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[nafex] Re: Big 4 Commercial Pears,
Joseph D. Postman, 11/20/2000
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Re: [nafex] Re: Big 4 Commercial Pears,
jhecksel, 11/20/2000
- Re: [nafex] Re: Big 4 Commercial Pears, Lucky Pittman, 11/20/2000
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Re: [nafex] Re: Big 4 Commercial Pears,
jhecksel, 11/20/2000
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Re: [nafex] Big 4 Commercial Pears,
Tom Olenio, 11/17/2000
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Re: [nafex] Big 4 Commercial Pears,
Sam Brungardt, 11/17/2000
- RE: [nafex] Big 4 Commercial Pears, Bell, Richard, 11/16/2000
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RE: [nafex] Big 4 Commercial Pears,
Bell, Richard, 11/16/2000
- RE: [nafex] Big 4 Commercial Pears, Claude Jolicoeur, 11/16/2000
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Re: [nafex] Big 4 Commercial Pears,
Kieran or Donna, 11/16/2000
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