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["Dr.O'Barr" <Topgun@Otelco.net>]

Thanks for the input Hal.

 

Richard O'Barr

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From: Hal Love

To: North American Fruit Explorers

Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 8:26 PM

Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Tenn pear

The Corvallis repository has the following narrative for it.

 

"Excellent quality, medium sized dessert pear. Reportedly came out of the Tennessee breeding program with Ayres. Apparently there is more than one cultvar propagated as Tenn in the South. This is the good one. It has a slightly pyriform shape, fairly uniform, and has a nice red blush on one side. About 350 - 400 chill hours (commonly sets two crops in Houston). Tree is very large and spreading on calleryana."

 

Ayres was developed in Knoxville and introduced in 1954.

 

Hal

 

 

-------------- Original message --------------
From: "Donna &/or Kieran" <holycow@cookeville.com>

> Does anyone have the faintest idea what this pear was called or numbered
> when it was either released, or not released? Or even what year it came
> out? I know of two trees, and they are very good. But it is rather
> frustrating to not know more about them. If Sherwood Akin was the source,
> he was buddies with a USDA breeder in SC, and I guess the variety could have
> slipped out that way. Other things slipped out in similar ways, things that
> we taxpayers paid to have produced, but the plant breeders didn't see fit to
> release. I've read that the Murcott, a fantastic citrus cross, would never
> have been released by the USDA these days, because they tree has got
> problems. Because in the old days th ey had to work more with comercial
> growers, the stock was already in the hands of the public. Donna
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