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[Joe and Ellen Hecksel <jhecksel@voyager.net>]

Introduced by South Dakota experimental Station.  SD ????? by Ewart. 
Ewart is a high quality pear found in Dayton OH.  Ewart is also know as
Karl's Favorite (Jung's Nursery).

Luscious is said to be fireblight resistant.  Said to be quite cold
hardy (Z4).  Said to be October ripening.  Flavor said to be similar to
Bartlett but more intense.

I grafted some scion labeled "Luscious" and fruited it out.  I was very
disappointed.  I *hope* I had some mislabeled scion.  Pear was quite
gritty, small, feeble aromatics, low soluble solids.  <b>If</b> the pear
I grafted really was Luscious, it was a terrible waste of a good name.

Soluble solids are the sugar and acidity that make you lick your lips 15
minutes after eating the fruit, and you think "Gee, that was a great
pear (or apple, or....), I can still taste it!"


-Joe

Doreen Howard wrote:
> 
> I came across a pear today that I have never seen before or read about at
> Whole Foods Organic Market in Madison, WI.  It's a small pear and looks like
> a giraffe!  The skin is cream and heavily mottled with big tan splotches.
> The name listed for it is Luscious, and it is grown by a small organic
> orchard near the Mississippi River on the Wisconsin side.  The handwritten
> info on the pear stated that is a good variety for organic production and is
> excellent eating quality.  The flavor is supposed to be like butterscotch.
> I'll have to wait until the pears ripen to verify that claim.
> 
> Does anyone have info on this pear?  The appearance of the fruit, in itself,
> is quite interesting.  I would have named it Giraffe, but no one asked me.
> Doreen Howard,
> Zone 4b Wisconsin, where a flake of the white stuff has yet to fall!!
> 
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-- 

                                    -Joe Hecksel
                                     Eaton Rapids, Michigan
                                     http://my.voyager.net/~jhecksel

I fish because I love to; 
because I love the environs where trout are found, 
which are invariably beautiful
... because trout do not lie or cheat 
and cannot be bought or bribed 
or impressed by power, 
but respond only to 
quietude 
and humility 
and endless patience... 

-John Voelker (aka Robert Traver)

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