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[beartown@acbm.qc.ca (Bordo Adrienne)]

We have a pear tree that was good sized when we bought this property 34
years ago. We are in Quebec,  close to the VT border & Lake Champlain. A few
years ago someone told us that the pear might be a VT variety.
It is an early ripening pear, late August/early Sep. It does not keep, even
if picked green & stored. The shape I would describe as "short, fat,
pearshaped". Skin is green changing to yellow. The tree is quite large, with
ascending branches that become pendulous as they get longer.
We lost 1/3 of the tree a few years ago in a big windstorm that uprooted the
plum tree next to it. For the past couple of years we have been getting more
& more hard gritty spots in the pears. I am afraid that we might lose it
entirely.
Several questions.
 Does anyone have an idea of what this pear might be?

If we had budding/grafting done, would the resulting trees also produce
fruit with the hard spots?


Adrienne
P.S. We also have the remnants of an apple orchard here. The trees may be
over 100 years old, possibly close to 150. They are completely hollow, just
living by a couple of inches of wood. One is likely a Yellow Transparent,
another maybe Duchess <sp?>. The other 3 we don't know.
Adrienne

Norman & Adrienne Bordo
Beartown Chesapeakes
www.acbm.qc.ca/beartown