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  • From: "tanis cuff" <tanistanis@hotmail.com>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Margerine & lard & Beurre Gifard
  • Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2006 13:30:31 +0000

I'm a couple counties away from, and higher on a hill then, loneroc's orchard. But I also saw disappointing blandness on an early-ripening pear. Mine was Petit Muscat, first year fruiting from top-work on a standard tree. The branch was loaded-- looked like a stem of Brussel sprouts! Ripened about 12 days later than what Corvalis lists, but I believe that the dif between Corvalis & here on other ripenings suggests the Petit Muscat was about on time. Bland, mealy; I've eaten more exciting baked potatoes with no butter.


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From: "loneroc" <>
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Margerine & lard & Beurre Gifard
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 05:44:13 -0500

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PS: My fruit is ripening about two weeks ahead of normal this year. My Beurre Gifard pears (not hardy in Z3 except topworked on a hardy framework, folks) dropped pears last weekend. The ones that were on the ground were repulsively pithy. I picked 'em all, put 'em in the fridge and suspect that they'll go into the new cider press that I'm assembling this morning. ...






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