September 18, 1991
By Bob Purvis Finding pear varieties suitable for Alaska has proven far more difficult than finding suitable apple varieties. My perusal of U. P. Hedrick’s The Pears of New York…
September 28, 1991
By Bob Purvis Finding pear varieties suitable for Alaska has proven far more difficult than finding suitable apple varieties. My perusal of U. P. Hedrick’s The Pears of New…
August 28, 1991
Orient come the so-called “Chinese varieties” of Asian pears, which are complex hybrids of-the ussurian pear (Pyrus ussuriensis), the Chinese white pear (P. Bretschneideris), and perhaps other Asian pear species….
February 28, 1991
most pears. The fruit, about the size of a ‘Sekel’ pear, is yellow with an orange-red cheek and has no grit. Both were the most disease-resistant pears in the Northwoods…
March 28, 1990
in Anchorage. In January 1988, I acquisition wood of two edible-fruited Ussurian pears, 1912-238 and 942-358, from the Morton Arboretum in Lisle, IL. These two pears both fruited in…
December 9, 1997
…PERCY PLUM PETER PEAR PETROVSKI PEAR PF 10 PF 12 PF 21 PF 39 PF 50 PF 51 PHILLIP PEAR PINK BLOSSOM NANKING PIONEER 20 PIRJA PRECIOUS APRICOT PRINCESS KAY…
December 28, 1991
By Erik Simpson Larry and Laura have successfully grown, the first known edible pear in Alaska—and it happened this year!!! This is apparently a Patten pear tree which produced pears…
June 23, 2003
…shame to graft hardy Russian pears on other pear rootstock, only to have the tree die because the roots weren’t hardy in a test winter. Siberian pear takes -50F with…
March 12, 1990
…decreasing hardiness, to be Summercrisp, Pioneer #3, Ure, and Sauvignac. It appears that Waterville, a Vermont pear, is significantly less winter-hardy than Sauvignac, a Quebec City pear. Giffard shows considerable…
August 28, 1991
…also has noted that ‘Summercrisp’ grows equally well on European or Ussurian pear rootstocks. Erik Simpson showed me his two pears, an ‘Arganche’ and a ‘Peter’s Sugar Pear’, both…