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[Lucky Pittman <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>]

At 09:16 AM 1/12/2007, Donna wrote:
>  I have a
> couple of volunteer pears in places where I wouldn't mind to have them
> provided they weren't dropping pears in yellow jacket season.  I'd
> been thinking that I'd have to choose and graft a really really early
> variety, or a really really late one.  Then it dawned on me that I
> might graft something else altogether... one of those relatives that
> normally a person would graft pear onto to dwarf it.  Hawthorn is
> one, but is aronia closely enough related to work?  Anything else
> you can think of?    Donna 

Quince.
I had a piece of 'Aromatnaya' quince fostered onto my Clapp's Favorite
pear (I'd run out of hawthorn seedlings), and it did OK for a couple of
years - until fireblight finally killed the Clapps back to the
rootstock.
Don't know how the mayhaws would do on pear.

LLP