@ Speedster,
I’m hopeful I’m getting close to finding it’s parentage. I’ve grafted any pear I can find with a description close to it. Once I find it’s parents or siblings than I’m going to go back and look at the breeding program. There is a good possibility it’s a remnant of an old group of pears like Ernie, Meanie, Miney, Moe. There were several other pears originally grown as part of that group. To many things about this pear don’t seem to be an accident but rather a skilled pear breeders life work. It blooms exceedingly late missing 90% of all frosts. It’s sweet and delicious and leaves me wanting more. It’s leaves are perfect having had only one fireblight strike in many years of growing. The pear shows resistant not just to scab and fireblight but also rust. Sure sounds like the Canadians breeding work to me so now the question is if it’s not the harrow group of pears then it must be the previous one. It’s bloom times overlap harrow sweet so it could be an accident or whoever developed the harrow sweet, delight etc. may have been familiar with this pear. I think the original breeders were genius about pear devopment. If they made this pear I want them to get their credit. See what information I’ve reconstructed so far from this original pear breeding program from Canada that it could possibly belong to Canadian Pears Enie, Menie, Miney, Moe, Phileson
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