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[Michael Foster <birdcrazie@hotmail.com>]

does anybody sell Abate Fetel pears here
 

 

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> From: hartmansfruit@msn.com
> To: mijwiz@yahoo.com; nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 06:45:59 -0700
> Subject: Re: [nafex] long pears?
> 
> Do a Google search for Abate Fetel pears and see if that is it?  This is 
> one 
> of the more popular pears in Italy which is close by Greece.  We saw a lot 
> of those when we were in Italy.  I have a couple of small trees growing 
> here 
> in western Washington state.
> Bob
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Melissa Kacalanos
> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 5:56 AM
> To: nafex mailing list at ibiblio
> Subject: [nafex] long pears?
> 
> While vacationing in Greece, I saw pears for sale in produce stores that 
> were extremely long, sort of like a butternut squash. They were actually 
> bigger than I would want to eat in one sitting. Not speaking Greek, I 
> didn't 
> ask about them at the time, so I don't even know if they were grown there 
> or 
> imported. Does anyone here know about them? Is pear neck length affected by 
> growing conditions, or were they an extra-long variety?
> 
> Melissa
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