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- From: "Kieran &/or Donna" <holycow@frontiernet.net>
- To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Researching Agricultural History
- Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:06:30 -0500
Oops. I wrote:
>There are older books from the big
horticultural fad in the 1980's that have been scanned online
What I meant was the 1800's, particularly
1850's to 1900. It's pretty sad to read about all the terrific pears that
they were growing in the South and the growers talking about the pear blight and
what varieties they were losing. They didn't know where it came from or
what the future was going to be like. Today I looked up
the phrase "Growing pears for profit" and found a book from the
1800's by that title on Google books. The author said that Kieffer
was producing 4X the bushels per acre that Duchess was, (and Duchess was
known as a reliable producer.) No wonder he says to get rid of the minor
pears and concentrate on heavy production. He also has detailed info
on pruning pears for production and to keep them down. I think
sometimes that I should be planting new pear trees and plan on chopping
down the grafted volunteers that are cropping now. I can always
graft the sprouts that come up. I had 3 trees from a tree that a local
woman raved about, turned out to be Kieffer. Supposedly Kieffer doesn't
take topgrafting all that well, forms poor unions. So I'm going below the
graft with side grafts with plans to harvest some Kieffers for
a couple years while the better variety is growing.
Anyone have Douglas pears?
Are they really better than Kieffer and almost as productive like Corvallis's
website says? Donna
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[NAFEX] Researching Agricultural History,
Spidra Webster, 06/09/2009
- Re: [NAFEX] Researching Agricultural History, Lon J. Rombough, 06/09/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] Researching Agricultural History,
Kevin Moore, 06/09/2009
- Re: [NAFEX] Researching Agricultural History, Road's End Farm, 06/09/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] Researching Agricultural History,
Kieran &/or Donna, 06/11/2009
- Re: [NAFEX] Researching Agricultural History, Kieran &/or Donna, 06/11/2009
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
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Re: [NAFEX] Researching Agricultural History,
John Henderson, 06/09/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] Researching Agricultural History,
Spidra Webster, 06/10/2009
- Re: [NAFEX] Researching Agricultural History, Kieran &/or Donna, 06/11/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] Researching Agricultural History,
Spidra Webster, 06/10/2009
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