To: Anton Callaway <marillen@earthlink.net>, North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Cc:
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] pears & fireblight
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 16:49:57 -0500
At 05:36 PM 4/12/2004 -0400, Anton wrote:
Cultivars to stay away from include: Buerre Superfin, Bartlett, Belle
Lucrative, Monterrey, Clapp's Favorite & sports, Harvest Queen,
Carrick, Duchess.
I'll second the caution about Clapp's - I've got one in my
orchard. Produced nicely for a couple of years, then FB ate it alive - I
pruned out well over half of the 7-yr old tree that year, just trying to
stay ahead of it. It's alive but it looks like heck; another attack and
it's gone, to be replaced by something more resistant.