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- From: "Jim Fruth" <jfruth@uslink.net>
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- Subject: [NAFEX] Cold-hardy pear
- Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 07:11:14 -0500
Eight to ten
years ago, I bought and planted three pears from the, then, Bear Creek
Nursery. The varieties were Nova, John and Ure. A couple of years
ago, the John bloomed, didn't set fruit, then promptly died of unknown
causes.
The Nova has
been trying to die since its second year here. It is an ugly cripple of a
tree with half its bark dead on the bole and grotesque limbs that grow a while
before they die. A root sucker finally popped up and I grafted something
else on it.
My Ure tree
finally bloomed this year, has two fruits on it and is a fine speciman of a pear
tree. I also bought three other alledged zone 3 pears that are dead
or trying to die., Summer Crisp, Flemish Beauty and Buerre Giffard.
Jim Fruth
Pequot Lakes, MN
zone 3
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- [NAFEX] Cold-hardy pear, Jim Fruth, 08/12/2004
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