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

In the late 1960's I grafted two pears to a Crategus douglasii, the native hawthorn of the NW,  The pears were Fall Butter and Bartlett.  The tree stayed as small as the smallest trees on quince.  After ten years, we moved and I took the tree along.  Later, I added a graft of Old Home.  At this time I still have the tree, though the Old Home section has become nearly standard sized.  Dr. M.N. Westwood tested C. douglasii as a pear rootstock and concluded it was a good stock except for it's suckering habit, making dwarf to semi-dwarf size trees.  In this climate the trees sucker very little if the soil isn't cultivated, only mowed.
-Lon Rombough
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On Sep 21, 2008, at 8:09 AM, Claude Jolicoeur wrote:

Ginda,
I did quite a few tests of topgrafting pears in adult Cortland trees.
Eventually, all the grafts died, but some have lived for 10 years and have
given fruits. It is a very unusual sight to see a branch full of pears in a
tree full of apples!
Also, if you have Crataegus (Hawthorn) or Amelanchier, you could try
grafting in those. The grafts will probably also eventually die, but may
live long enough to produce. I have had some pears from a Hawthorn tree.

Claude Jolicoeur, 
Quebec.

A 09:30 08.09.21 -0400, vous avez écrit :
> 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

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