Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@sentantiq 1/ My scholarship relaxed universalist. Homer writes of pears in the Odyssey. Though Pliny and Varro get to names if I remember correctly. It was the Romans who put pears around, documenting extensive pear growing and grafting techniques. ‘Pound’, out of England, is likely Roman.

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @BarMas @asausagehastwo @Slowfood_de 1/ Culinary or Warden pears store much longer - indeed may be the longest-storing class of temperate fruit, by far. Pound, for example, the most popular culinary variety planted by settlers in the PNW, can store through July, by which time our earliest varieties are coming in.Quoted by@BarMas @asausagehastwo @Slowfood_de 1/ Culinary or Warden pears store much longer - indeed may be the longest-storing class of temperate fruit, by far. Pound, for example, the most popular culinary variety planted by settlers in the PNW, can store through July, by which time our earliest varieties are coming in.