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  • From: "Donna &/or Kieran" <holycow@cookeville.com>
  • To: <jas39a@earthlink.net>, "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Duchesse Bronzee Pear
  • Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:16:42 -0500

Eddie, While you are looking, consider something I read in Tukey's book on pears, that Duchess tastes much better grown on quince. I ordered quince rootstocks this spring, but they arrived with no roots and have all died but one. I don't know how the rootstock people get away with it, but apparently it is the practice to cut the roots off of rootstocks. The point is to avoid taproots in the finished trees, and also the commercial people do summer budding, which gives the stocks time to recover. It won't work for us doing spring grafts. Donna




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