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According to the Raintree Nursery Web Site:
http://www.raintreenursery.com/catalog/ProductDetails.cfm?
ProductID=B200

Rescue is only hardy from zones 5 - 9

Chris Mauchline
SE PA, zone 6

--- In nafex@y..., "fuwafuwaosagi" <fuwafuwausagi@m...> wrote:
> In reference to Rescue pear.   I have attempted to grow 
Rescue "here" 
> (zone 4b/5a) for a few years on OHxF333 without success.   It grows 
> in a manner similar to Bosc, which simply is not hardy here.  Sort 
of 
> a progression of two steps forward, one step back, and then every 
few 
> years 5 steps back  :)   
> 
> Rescue has a very inconsistent reputation.  I have heard it is 
> fantastic in some years, and inspid in others form the same 
> growers.   When it is good it is supposedly very good, and when it 
is 
> bad, it is very bad, along the lines of Kieffer.  Unfortunately it 
> does not stand up to canning nearly as well.
> 
> I am tempted to tip graft this on another tree in order to actually 
> get some fruit, assuming that every few year sit wil freeze out.  
> 
> Wishing all of you the very best in this most blessed of holiday 
> seasons...may the Lord comfort you and keep you whole.
> 
> the fluffy bunny 
> 
> 
> --- In nafex@y..., Claude Jolicoeur <cjoli@g...> wrote:
> > Donna, 
> > The only thing I have on Rescue pear is from "The Harrowsmith 
book 
> of Fruit
> > Trees" by Jennifer Bennett. It says: "Found growing near 
Vancouver, 
> rescued
> > after its owner's death by a nursery and recently released by 
> Washington
> > State University, this is a reliable annual bearer of early, 
orange-
> blushed
> > fruit, sometimes 6 in long, that is ready to harvest in late 
August 
> to
> > early September on the West Coast. The fruit will store until 
> December. The
> > trees are upright, vigorous and productive. This is Benowitz's 
first
> > choice, and he calls it "a showstopper" (Benowitz is the owner of 
> Raintree
> > Nursery, Morton, Washington)".
> > 
> > I hope this may help you... Unfortunately, I don't remember 
having 
> seen
> > something about it in Pomona. And there is nothing there that 
could 
> let me
> > suspect it would be a hardy variety.
> > 
> > Claude
> > 
> > A 07:07 01.12.27 -0600, vous avez écrit :
> > >I asked Bernie about the Rescue pear, and he'd never heard of 
it.  
> Do you
> > >all remember that some years ago it was written up in Pomona?


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