A: This phenomenon is called alternate-year bearing and is very common in fruit trees. In non-bearing years, the tree tends ...

Callery pear tree seeds were brought to the U.S. from China in 1916 to help breeders create fruit-bearing pear trees more resistant to fire blight, a disease that destroys leaves and fruit ...

I have a 'Bartlett' pear ... fruit. But if you're not even getting flowers, you're not getting fruit no matter how many trees you've got. Usually the biggest obstacle in non-flowering of a young ...

Hui and two assistants pull out a knife, reach into a plastic bag filled with twigs no bigger than your pinkie, and cut from a fruit bearing pear tree. She says it's an Asian pear, and that she's ...

In the 1630s, a pear tree went into the ground in Massachusetts ... it was already being heralded as “probably the oldest cultivated fruit bearing tree in New England.” By now, it’s almost ...

As early as 1852, folks were already proclaiming Endicott's pear tree as "probably the oldest cultivated fruit bearing tree in New England." Through the 20th century, Endicott's pear tree endured ...

however different varieties of the tree have cross-pollinated with each other, leading to the spread of fruit-bearing trees. Tiny hard brown pears appear on Callery pear trees in the fall.

Hui and two assistants pull out a knife, reach into a plastic bag filled with twigs no bigger than your pinkie, and cut from a fruit bearing pear tree. She says it's an Asian pear, and that she's ...