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joanne

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Morecambe, Lancashire

Posted: Mon Sep 15, 14 12:06 pm Post subject:

tahir wrote:

Jo are they all the same shape (round with a little point?), they are v similar to ours, and we don't have any perry pears.

Either way it's going to be a pre 19th C pear as by then they were much bigger and different shapes

Yes they are all pretty much identical and as the house is from the 1700's it's a very old variety as the tree is huge

Nicky cigreen

Joined: 25 Jun 2007
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Location: Devon, uk

Posted: Mon Sep 15, 14 12:27 pm Post subject:
you could pick a few and see if they ripen up? in my limited experience pears are usually rock hard on the tree

joanne

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Morecambe, Lancashire

Posted: Mon Sep 15, 14 12:33 pm Post subject:

Nicky Colour it green wrote:

you could pick a few and see if they ripen up? in my limited experience pears are usually rock hard on the tree

That's the plan, however after picking 20lb's of Damsons, 10lb's of the Williams type pears and picking up all the windfall apples we were a bit overwhelmed! So we are going back next week to have a go at the brown ones

joanne

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Morecambe, Lancashire

Posted: Thu Sep 25, 14 10:25 pm Post subject:

The lovely guy from the Northern Fruit Group came today to look at the trees at Deb's, he's taken cuttings from some of the pears as he couldn't identify them but said the following:

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Very interesting- one of the two trees nearest to the road (one on its at legs) is a Bramley and the dying one probably the same (shape and size of leaf clue). The two trees near to the house(one leaning over next door hedge!) are Victorian cooker Lane's Prince Albert, raised c 1840- much planted at one time and can keep till March. Both trees had "rootstock" apples as well. From rear garden, have taken pear samples from the pear trees with largish yellow fruits and the dark/red fruits. At this stage not sure about whether the latter is a "rootstock pear ". There may have been a named grafted variety attached at one time; on the other hand we may be able to identify at some stage. Keep tasting the pear to see whether it develops a reasonable flavour! There were 3 trees(one almost dead) in line to the west of our red/purple tree. Two are variety Hessle(Hazel pear) - many of these along Cockerbar Lane- very hardy, allegedly from Yorkshire c 1820, but possibly Scottish in origin. Missed out the Conference pear in front garden- again the rootstock has come through from the base and is producing quite sizeable russet looking pears; they may not be edible!!

The Hessle pear is the one that I thought was a Williams type pear - I find it very interesting that the mystery pear that started all this off is still unidentified. It must be a variety even if it was originally used as a rootstock!

The Lane's Prince Albert apple is a lovely one, makes fantastic juice and a load of it are currently in my cider experiment. I'm going to cook some for the freezer as well

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