Please help identity this tree

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@IL847

The leaves are interesting. Take a look at the dots on the bark. The limbs and the thorns.

Serrated leaves are more charecteristic of asian pear than callery

Grafting large Callery and Betulifolia pear rootstocks

It’s much better if i don’t let a callery go to long but occasionally I do. There is a big difference between a 2 and 3 year old callery. This one was more like 4 years old i think because it was in an older orchard it got overlooked twice. Clearly the grafts failed and it should have been t- bud grafted. Planting large amounts of rootstocks then grafting them in 1 or 2 years is a great strategy at my orchard. Allowing the roots to get established gives the tree more resistantance to dro…

The baby pears on this thread are part asian pear i think and part improved kieffer or duchess D’ Angoulme
The next great pear or apple