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[Ed Fackler <rocmdw@aye.net>]

nottke wrote:

> While I have read Pomona for a few years, I am new to this listserve.
> Looking for some advice.
>
> I have three 97 year old pear trees that are on their last legs; two
> Kieffer and an "apple pear".  I would like to put in a few more pear trees.
> Here in the foot of the foothills 15 miles west of Winston-Salem in Zone 7A
> in good red clay (contains a fair proportion of sand, so not too hard to
> work), would "Warren" be  a most preferred variety?

     My response-------

     Ninety seven year old trees!!  Your red clay must not be too bad!

     I'd recommend Warren (or Magness-near the same), Honeysweet (a larger 
seckel type), Harvest Queen, a new one called Green Jade (which ripens on
the tree),  Chojuro asian and Korean Giant (asian).

     That's about it for a few of the better ones available which have legit 
resistance to fireblight.  With Warren or Magness, you'll need a nearby
pollinator.

Ed, So. Indiana, heaven, happy as a pig in slop, etc.






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