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The Plymouth pear is considered to be either a subspecies of Pyrus pyraster (European wild pear) or a distinct species. [citation needed] It is one of the rarest trees in the UK and it is protected under Schedule 8 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act and seeds have been deposited at Kew's Millennium Seed Bank [7]
Bosc Pear, from The Pears of New York (1921) by Ulysses Prentiss Hedrick [1] The Beurré Bosc or Bosc is a cultivar of the European pear (Pyrus communis), originally from France or Belgium. Also known as the Kaiser, it is grown in Europe, Australia, British Columbia and Ontario, Canada, and the U.S. states of California, Washington, and Oregon.
Tasks that gardening enthusiasts typically do include preparing soil, planting seeds or seedlings, weeding and picking off bugs, irrigating, mulching, and harvesting and measuring the results. Volunteers can also help with Mission Garden's seed saving enterprise or work in the library.
You may wish to plant 2-3 seeds per location, removing all but the strongest sapling once plants initiate growth in spring. Select a planting site with full sun and well-draining soil.
Over 3000 cultivars of the pear are known. [1] The following is a list of the more common and important cultivars, with the year and place of origin (where documented) and an indication of whether the pears are for cooking, eating, canning, drying or making perry.
Frank Reiber, a plant scientist, searched for fire blight–resistant, fruit-tree seeds. In 1908 he found that Callery pear trees grown from imported Chinese seeds in a test orchard in Oregon ...
This wild pear and Pyrus caucasica (syn. P. communis subsp. caucasica) are thought to be the ancestors of the cultivated European pear (Pyrus communis subsp. communis). Both the wild pears are interfertile with domesticated pears. It is sometimes difficult to distinguish Pyrus pyraster from a common pear. Pyrus pyraster can reach an age of 100 ...
Fermented pear juice is called perry or pear cider and is made in a way that is similar to how cider is made from apples. [5] [10] Perry can be distilled to produce an eau de vie de poire, a colorless, unsweetened fruit brandy. [61] Pear purée is used to manufacture snack foods such as Fruit by the Foot and Fruit Roll-Ups. [62] [63] [64]