Centuries of effort to form a hybrid between the pear and the apple have at last met with success. A. German gardener has grafted apple twigs on six-year-old plum trees, and the shoots thus obtained were in turn grafted on pear trees. The fruit obtained exhibits all the good properties of both the apple and the pear. This new apple-pear cannot be grown outdoors, but only h gresnfaousaa,
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 14, 12 October 1926, Page 10
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