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St James South Elmham Village Orchard Tree Details

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G2 Robin Pear Tree Details

 
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Grid Ref G2
Tree Type Pear
Variety Robin
Rootstock Wild Pear
Date Planted 23 January 2011
(15 yrs 1 mths 7 days ago)
Tree Description Small fruit, bright red on the sunny side. A Norfolk pear, once grown in every farm orchard. A September dessert pear.
Comments Chosen by RP. RP remembers that in his Norfolk family garden orchard there was a tall Robin tree. Towards the top the tree had died back, and Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers regularly used to drill their nest holes in the dead wood. The pears were quite delicious. A Robin pear tree is already fruiting well in St. James (RP & CS).

Grafted in situ.

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More quotesAmong sweet dews and flowers; where any row of fruit-trees over-woody reach'd too far their pampered boughs, and needed hands to check fruitless embraces (John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book V 213)
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