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[Anton Callaway <marillen@earthlink.net>]

This fall was especially good for fall color here in Eastern NC.

Pear cultivars with especially brilliant fall color were Ya Li, Spalding and 
P3 (an inbred descendant of Kieffer).  The latter two cultivars are pretty 
dependably colorful.  Colors ranged from crimson to orange and golden.

Apples never have as spectacular fall color and the best I've seen is still 
only yellow- no other colors.  This year the Liberty and Enterprise looked 
OK, but the ones that really had nice yellow fall color were Detroit Red and 
Pettengill.  Many of the other cultivars are still green.

Anton
Zone 8 where the Fuyu's were just picked (Possum already got about a third of 
the crop).

-----Original Message-----
From: Hal Love <lovehd@comcast.net>
Sent: Nov 30, 2005 1:26 PM
To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] pears' fall colors

My pears were unusally colorful this year as well. The leaves were
yellowish-orange with red highlights. I don't know the variety, but suspect
they are Comice. We had a very dry summer and fall here (n. middle TN,
medium silt-loam soil) as well.

Hal

zn 6b TN


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "tanis cuff" <tanistanis@hotmail.com>
To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 11:31 AM
Subject: [NAFEX] pears' fall colors


> This year I noticed a range of fall leaf color in pear varieties.  Here
> (s.central WI, light soil, very droughty year), the best color was on my
> Petit Muscat and on an unID'd tree a couple miles down the road.  Does
> anyone else notice this, and if so, which varieties?  Can we get
homeowners
> to plant more pears if we can sing the praises of fall color?
>
> Sorry, didn't notice nice color on any apple leaves.
>
>
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