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["Kieran or Donna" <redherring@tnaccess.com>]

The fluffy bunny wrote:
That paradox is that Asian pears do not seem particularity cold
hardy(simply not in the same league as Europeans), and yet their flavor
seems greatly improved in the colder areas of the
country...i.e...Macintosh type environment.

Could it be that cool nights are needed to make the best flavor in these
pears?  If so, westerners with cool desert nights might be able to clarify
this issue.  However, given their tendency to bloom early, they might not
crop too well.  When I lived on the high plains of eastern New Mexico,
apricots were common yard trees, and though they didn't crop every year,
they apparently cropped often enough to be worth growing.  Donna


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