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Bergamotte Ploskui

Pear

Origin/History

A variety grown on the Northern plains of the steppes of Russia, where the summer is fully as dry and hot as that of Iowa and the winter far more severe. It was on trial at the College Farm, Ames, Iowa, in 1880, as documented in the Iowa Horticultural Society Report.

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Other

It seems to unite well with the apple when root- or top-grafted.

Book Sources

Described in 1 period pomological work

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Bergamotte Ploskui.

i. Ia. Hon. Soc. Rpt. 61. 1880.

A variety grown on the Northern plains of the steppes of Russia where the summer is fully as dry and hot as that of Iowa and the winter far more severe. On trial at the College Farm, Ames, Iowa, in 1880. It seems to unite well with the apple when root- or top-grafted.

U.P. Hedrick, The Pears of New York (1921)