Doug,
I bought it back sometime in the 1980's from Henry Field Nursery. It was unusual a little but not that impressive to me. In spite of its name, a lot of years it would set fruit very heavily here in NW FL and the pears would correspondingly be quite small----anything but Giant. Taste was sweet-tart and it was fairly hard. I didn't notice it having the apple-like quality when immature. Maybe they meant you could cook it like an apple then, I don't know. Anyway, I was less than thrilled at the performance of the tree after paying a bit of a premium for the tree. I never grafted off it and still have the tree---so that should say something about my opinion of it. However, different strokes for different strokes--according to Sly. Some might like it, much better than I did.
Regards,
Richard Harrison, NW FL
BTW, my tree never grew as big as others planted near it----possibly because the over-bearing may have dwarfed it some. It did bear as a young tree as I recall---which is somewhat unusual for pear trees on standard root stocks.
--- On Wed, 5/12/10, Douglas Woodard <dwoodard@becon.org> wrote:
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