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[mIEKAL aND <qazingulaza@gmail.com>]

Louis, someone, maybe you, had told me once that Kieffer is 30% asian
pear.  Do you concur?

I presently have one tree which has been faithfully uber productive
every year.  Last year we picked 11 bushel from one tree and pressed
35 gallons of pear cider from it.  This year because of really late
spring killing frost I'll be lucky to get a bushel or two.


~mIEKAL



On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Louis Pittman <lpittman@murraystate.edu> 
wrote:
> Growing up in the Deep South, Keiffer was one of a handful of iron-clad
> pears that could survive the annual onslaught of fireblight, take a licking
> and keep on ticking.
> Rarely saw an old farmstead without an old, unkempt but prolific Keiffer -
> and still see 'em hanging on around the countryside.  It was the pear of my
> childhood - and what I expect a pear to be - firm, juicy, somewhat gritty,
> and flavorful.  No soft, cloying 'butter'pears for me!
> Good to eat fresh, excellent for canning.  Rumors abound of tons of Keiffer
> fruit leaving the country to return in cans labeled 'Bartlett'(which is,
> allegedly, its pollen parent)
>
> Lucky
>
> On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 9:36 AM, <Jwlehman@aol.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> In a message dated 10/4/2012 9:52:45 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>> qazingulaza@gmail.com writes:
>>
>> And for  the record I make gallons and gallons of dry white wine with
>> them, people  often thinking they are drinking grapes....
>> The cider left to partially ferment then drink is great. Carbonated pear
>> juice.
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