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[Ray Kaminski <rjkaminski@charter.net>]

Presently have 41 different pear varieties on my list and never had 
fire blight or anything other than plum curcillo and stink bug 
damage. Now have 39 varieties as Ubllieen and Conference (as of fall 
)are now ashes feeding other trees.  Every year when it was dry and 
warm about half the leaves of these two would turn brown but it was 
not fire blight.  They would fall  off prematurely and had not 
produced any fruit.  They would look good in the spring (no blossoms) 
till about very late July and then start to get brown patches and 
slowly spread over the whole leaf.  I took some over to the State 
Experiment Station and they advised me to get them out as apparently 
are not suited for this area.  They determined it was not fire 
blight. I have no water system in the orchard and this is a hobby 
orchard, my play ground so to speak. Now I want to decorate it a 
little with red pears. Ray
North East Wisc near Lake Michigan Zone 4-5