What's the real story on the Crispie pear?

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I’m looking into a fairly new variety called Crispie which is available for sale here Crispie™ — Adams County Nursery. This is the patent that was filed on it about 10 years ago http://www.google.com/patents/US20060026725. There is a little more information available here Crispie ™ Euro-Asian Pear Tree - One Green World. Does anyone grow this variety?
per acnursery "Crispie™
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Crispie™ is a new selection from Hort Research in New Zealand. It is a medium-sized, yellow pear harvesting one week ahead of Bartlett. It has a firm yet juicy texture with great flavor. Tree is grower friendly and productive. Crispie™ has a narrow harvest window and should not be considered a long-term storage variety.

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I saw in the literature it might be fb vulnerable, so i guess i’ll pass being in dallas I see OG World has it too

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Clark - You might also be interested in this newer selection from Gurney’s. If you trust Scarlet Tanager companies then this is supposed to be FB resistant. (I don’t particularly, but also haven’t had issues with orders from Gurney’s like others.)

Though this suggests it is more “somewhat tolerant” to FB:

Edit: I had a single Kieffer pear this fall, and was very pleasantly surprised by it. It clearly is a good mix of Asian and Euro pear genes. I don’t particularly like Asian pears but the addition of a little Euro pear character in Kieffer really made it good.

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