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  • From: "Jim Fruth" <jimfruth@charter.net>
  • To: "NAFEX" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Cc: Jackie Kuehn <jakuehn@verizon.net>
  • Subject: [nafex] Compatable pears???
  • Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 21:26:58 -0500

A friend has a wild pear (pyrus spp.) that bears inedible fruit. To help him out, I grafted scionwood from my pears onto his wild pear. His tree accepted all of my grafts. Several of those grafts were from my Ure Pear. When I saw the abundance of edible fruit on his tree, I grafted his wild pear scionwood onto my Ure but the Ure rejected all grafts. That is curious: How can scions be accepted onto a tree whose scions are rejected by the other? I guess that is one of the mysteries of Nature.

Jim Fruth
Brambleberry Fruit Farm
4002 Davis Street
Pequot Lakes, MN 56472





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