Donna,
I have a couple nice photos of my Beierschmitt I could send you as
attachments off list if you like. It does have the slightly lumpy
appearance. Does great here.
Bob
Western Washington
hartmansfruit@msn.com
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Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 8:15
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Subject: [NAFEX] Help with pear ID?
There are 3 pears I am having trouble figuring out. I'll
be grateful if
someone here can figure them out.
One
should be easy. It's a large plain green pear that turns yellow.
The
skin is thin, the flesh tender and grit free, the flavor very mild
though
distinctly pear like. The texture is not juicy and melting like I
am used to in European style pears. What is distinctive about this
pear is
the weird lumpy shape. It's as if it is made in sections of
different
sizes, the larger sections create angular projections when seen
from the
bottom. The different sections kind of pucker together on
the bottom end.
The larger the individual fruit, the more extreme the
lumpiness. I have
seen 2 trees, both quite upright and obviously a
good 30+ years old. I have
seen 2 people at the farmer's mkt selling
the fruit, so I know it is
something that has been fairly widely available
and of course quite blight
resistant. So I have looked carefully
though the most familiar names on the
Corvallis blight resistant
list. I figured it just had to be Maxine, esp
after one old guy said
he bought his tree from Starks. Photos of Maxine
don't look like it
though. Then I found just one painting of Beierschmitt
that seemed
to have the lumpy bottom. Any other suggestions or
verifications?
The other 2 shouldn't be a problem, but they are
for me. One is the tree in
town that is again making a huge crop of
smallish delicious melting fruit,
and the other is my tree at home that
makes pears that are squattier,
thicker skinned, more russetted, redder,
and at least a week later. I
thought last year that my pears weren't
as good, but now I am not so sure.
The skin is definitely thicker and
grittier on mine. A nurseryman ID'd the
town tree as Ayers, which
meant mine was something that comes in a bit
later. I had assumed
Moonglow till I saw some photos of Moonglow. Then I
looked at
Corvallis photos of Ayers, which looks more like my pear than the
town
tree does. So maybe the problem is that I have Ayers and the town tree
is something similar that comes in just a little earlier. But I
can't find
anything that makes a small melting blight resistant pear
shortly before
Ayers.
We are a little behind the
seasons in town, probably because of the
cooler temps from the lake (nice
in summer, not so nice in winter). My tree
is young and the fruit
get a lot more sun than the fruit under the large
thick canopy of the town
tree. Even the town fruit has rougher skin on
fruit that got a lot
of sun. But none of my fruit ever have any shine to
their skin like
the town fruit do. I know of 2 other trees that make fruit
just like
mine, so I am assuming that they have to all 3 be Ayers. If there
is
an odd one out, it would be the town tree. From what I am told, it had
to be something pretty easy to buy. I suddenly started wondering if
it
could be Dabney, which the McMinnville nurseries would have acquired
back
when it came out in the 40's, and which could have been
mislabeled and
gradually absorbed under the name Ayers along with
the real Ayers. But
Dabney photos don't look right. Please
help me out here. Can the same pear
be a different shape and skin
under different conditions? Or can you
suggest a variety it could
be?
Donna
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