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["Jim Fruth" <jfruth@uslink.net>]

Lon said:  "Medlar, quince, Sorbus, Amelanchier, loquat are all graft 
compatible
with pear."
-Lon Rombough

    Lon,
   There is an unobvious problem connected with off-species grafts.  A 
visitor to the walnut orchards in California can see peculiar looking trees, 
walnut trees whose bottom portion of the bole is a smaller diameter than the 
upper portion.  Eventually those trees strangle themselves.  I have a 
similar thing happening in my orchard where I grafted a fast growing plum 
onto a slow growing rootstock.  These trees of mine need to be held upright 
with crane-like supports or they either topple over in the wind or just 
outright break off.  In comparison, grafting a pear onto an Amelanchier or 
Loquat, etc. would likely have a similar result.

Jim Fruth
Brambleberry Farm
Pequot Lakes, MN  56472
www.bberryfarm.com
(218)568-8483 [Store]
(218)831-7018 [My Cell]