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  • From: "Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Turnbull Giant pear
  • Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 16:39:13 -0700

I've had it for years. Typical of an Asian-European hybrid pear. Rather coarse, with lots of grit cells here in Oregon. It cooks fairly well, but it's nothing outrageous. I don't know how they managed to patent it as it was sold for some years with no patent.
-Lon Rombough
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On May 12, 2010, at 3:23 PM, Douglas Woodard wrote:

See
<http://www.turnbullclan.com/newsletters/be07/be_2007_v08_n02/be_2007_v08_n02.pdf>


Is anyone acquainted with this pear?

Doug Woodard
St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
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