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[Sarah Kehler Ewing <skkewing@yahoo.com>]

I recently tried a delicious pear from Organic Planet Market in Edmonton.  
These 'Klapperton Red' pears were a smaller sized, brilliant red (not dark 
red like a Red Anjou or Bartlett, more of a bright deep pink), very juicy and 
delicious desert pear.  I've never seen or heard of them before and I'm 
curious to know more about them (where developed, parentage, 
growth/harvest/storage/hardiness information, etc).  All I could find  on the 
internet was that three different organic wholesalers in the B.C. Okanogan 
offered the pears for sale.

Thank-you (and I apologise for filling your inbox this afternoon),

Sarah Ewing