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["Donna &/or Kieran" <holycow@cookeville.com>]

The one Asian pear I'm really familiar with is Twentieth Century.  The 
branches grow straight up, really ugly looking.  Then when full of fruit 
they bow outward, and given several years of cropping they change shape 
themselves.  Still ugly trees, but the fruit are fantastic.  I've seen other 
young Asian trees and they were doing the straight up thing too.  Donna