Anyone growing the Ayer pear from Kansas? Its not the same pear as Ayers

General Fruit Growing
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@clarkinks I found out where Omar H. Ayer’s Farm was

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@39thparallel

That’s impressive i’m curious if anything is left of it after all these years.

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I used to attend a church that I think now has part of his 160 acres. I will make sport of hunting around his farm and the old Mount Hope Nursery. Most of that land has been developed, but who knows. Some of Ayer’s original trees probably still live at various farms around Kansas. I think he with Mount Hope planted trees on campus.

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@39thparallel

Im glad Ayer, Estella, and Douglas pears are all once again growing in Douglas county kansas.

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Yes,! 120 years later and a couple miles from the old mount Hope nursery. Thanks for helping acquire the scion. I may try putting Ayer and Estella on quince to see about producing fruit a little quicker.

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