@AgrarianSharing @BarMas Here, a pear slice from a 2015 event. 'Pound', the 2lb giant (video monograph, below) is, sadly, the only warden type I know of to make it Stateside. Always a thrill, finding it in abandoned homesteads deep in the woods. Me, I hold out hopes for a warden popularity resurgence!
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Photograph of a diversity of pears, reflecting a dizzying array of shapes, colors and sizes.
![...but a teensy slice of the pear diversity at the Home Orchard Society's All About Fruit Show in Canby, OR.As the provenance of these varieties suggest [top row, L to R: Hall (CA), Martin Sec (France), White Doyenne (France), Cascade Red (OR), Bergamotte Sageret (France), General Galliene (France), Helmershus Roda (Sweden), Batjarka (Serbia). Bottom row, L to R: Porporata (Italy), Le Lectier (France), Jules d'Airolles (Belgium), Pound (England), US 309 (MD), Beurre Madame Henre Lamy (France), Docteur Desportes (France)] our ready access to over 1,000 named cultivars from the world's most globally-diverse pear collection - the USDA's pear repository in Corvallis - not only significantly shapes tasting sessions such as this (the largest of its kind in the country) but the extraordinary reach of our local propagation efforts. I've been blessed to spend countless hours walking the trees in the Corvallis repository through the years, studying, tasting, falling in love, and cutting scion.](/media/1838900906605363672-GYUWnqla4AAbZdQ.jpg)
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...but a teensy slice of the pear diversity at the Home Orchard Society's All About Fruit Show in Canby, OR.As the provenance of these varieties suggest [top row, L to R: Hall (CA), Martin Sec (France), White Doyenne (France), Cascade Red (OR), Bergamotte Sageret (France), General Galliene (France), Helmershus Roda (Sweden), Batjarka (Serbia). Bottom row, L to R: Porporata (Italy), Le Lectier (France), Jules d'Airolles (Belgium), Pound (England), US 309 (MD), Beurre Madame Henre Lamy (France), Docteur Desportes (France)] our ready access to over 1,000 named cultivars from the world's most globally-diverse pear collection - the USDA's pear repository in Corvallis - not only significantly shapes tasting sessions such as this (the largest of its kind in the country) but the extraordinary reach of our local propagation efforts. I've been blessed to spend countless hours walking the trees in the Corvallis repository through the years, studying, tasting, falling in love, and cutting scion.
2/ Millennials? The oldest European, as distinct from Asian variety we share, is a 2,000 year-old Roman pear. Don’t be duped. It takes not sentimentality, but substance, to outlast a passing show of cultures, languages and civilizations coming and going through a swinging door.
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Photograph of pear diversity - a dizzying array of sizes, shapes and colors - represented at one of our fall fruit shows. ‘Pound’ pear is the two pound giant, up-front-and-center.