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["Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>]

Several years ago at Oregon State U. Dr. Porter Lombard grafted Asian pears to M26 apple rootstock, using an interstem of Winter Banana apple.  Winter Banana is apparently compatible with both apple and pear, though it often helps to put a piece of Old Home interstem between the Winter Banana and the regular pear.  The result, M26/Winter Banana/Old Home/Asian Pear trees were fully dwarf, productive, and showed no signs of graft imcompatibility after five years of bearing.  
This was seen at the 1987 NAFEX meeting held at OSU.
-Lon Rombough
Grapes, writing, consulting, my book, The Grape Grower, at http://www.bunchgrapes.com  Winner of the Garden Writers Association "Best Talent in Writing" award for 2003. 
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On Sep 21, 2008, at 6:30 AM, Ginda Fisher wrote:

Can pears be grafted onto apple?  My son is lobbying for a pear,  
preferably something that might bear before he leaves home for  
college in a few years.  Also, I'm not sure I have room for another  
tree.

Ginda
eastern MA, zone 6
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