At the Portland Nursery's apple and pear tastings this year, my husband and I were very impressed with the taste of the Cascade Pear. Since then, I have not been able to find anything on it (a "cascade pear" google search talks about pears in the mountains), except that I did stumble across a blip in The Great Book of Pears by Barbra Jeanne Flores. She says it was developed in 1988 as a Comice and Red Bartlett cross down at the Oregon Agricultural Experiment Station in Medford.
Can anyone provide more information about it, or possibly point me to where I might find a tree?
Thanks.
The patent was assigned to Carlton Plants http://www.carltonplants.com/index.html
Since Carlton is wholesale, I'd wager Portland Nursery will sell it this winter during bare root season.
Thanks. I am new to all this (a renter who finally bought a house), so can you give me a heads up as to when that might be, or how I can find out? I don't see anything on their website.
Also, are there any books out there about pears? I find books about apples, when they bloom, disease resistance, how long they store, etc, but nothing for pears. I'm tired of Bartlett, Anjou, Comice, and Bosc...
Call Portland Nursery and ask when they get bare root fruit trees in. Ask to reserve a Cascade and have them notify you when it's in.
Good overall reference, "Temperate Zone Pomology" by M. N. Westwood
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss?url=s ... &x=20&y=21
And they seem to be in New Zealand also, found this description of them - "Cascade
Cascade pears are a rounder pear which are block red in colour and have a smooth skin. They are juicy and sweet." at http://www.visionfruit.com/pears.html which is a New Zeland fruit marketing company!
Dave