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["tanis cuff" <tanistanis@hotmail.com>]

Can I over-emphasize that I have just one pretty nice but unidentified older 
tree which I've tried to propagate ?  Finding that 'Bartlet' roots are 
working the best, so far, for whatever cv I'm using for scion.

tc


> From: "Kevin Bradley" <edforest55@hotmail.com>
> Reply-To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: [NAFEX] pear rootstocks
> Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 18:38:09 -0600
>
> I did a little searching on the internet and in nafex archives. Came up 
> with very little. I was trying to find that post done by I think it was Doc 
> Lisenby about pear rootstocks, mentioning either OH x F 513 or OH x F 51. 
> From what I recall, I believe he said that he had tried many of the OH x F 
> stocks and was disappointed but that 51 or 513 was the best bet available 
> but still not what one would expect.
> Has anyone had any experience with these two?
> Thanks for your response Tanis.
> I had just read that Bartlet produces a smaller tree than the generic P 
> communis. And that P betulifolia produces a larger tree.
> Tanis, I get the impression that this was recently discussed, I will look 
> for you posts on OH x F and Bartlet.
> Thanks again
> Kevin Bradley


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