To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Kieffer Pear
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 09:19:24 -0500
A 08:40 11.03.11 -0500, vous avez écrit :
>Spent a little time with Oriana Kruszewski, the Asian Pear lady, while
>attending the Organic Farming Conference in LaCrosse & she claims
>Kieffer pear is 1/3 asian in heritage. First time I've heard that.
>Can anyone verify that?
I think this is pretty much a well known fact...
>From Hedrick's Pears of New York:
"The seed parent of Kieffer was the Sand Pear of China... This tree bore
first fruit in 1863"