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["Jim Fruth" <jimfruth@charter.net>]

    I have three hives, probably a surplus of honeybees for my neighborhood 
(I live in the city).  My bees forage from everything including the pear 
trees.  Pollen-gathering wild bees also forage the pear blossoms but I have 
never seen bumble bees on pear.

Jim Fruth
Brambleberry Fruit Farm
4002 Davis Street
Pequot Lakes, MN  56472
1-218-831-7018 (My Cell)
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Subject: Re: [NAFEX] 'Ayers' pear vs. 'Ayer' Pear
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I'm assuming 'Ayers' is the sugar pear.  I'm not finding much about
'Ayer' online but heres a great illustration from 1911:

http://www.lyonsltd.com/Artists/D_Passmore/Ayer_Pear_1911-Print

~mIEKAL


On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Richard Moyer <ramoyer@gmail.com> wrote:
> I can't keep my kids names straight, but I remember this distinction
> when Joseph Postman shared it over 10 years ago:
> In the the Pyrus collection (and the online catalog) at
> NCGR-Corvallis, 'Ayer' and 'Ayers' are separate pears.  What does this
> say about my brain and fruit?
>
> Richard Moyer
> SW VA
> Eating dried pears with breakfast