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• n  sweet juicy gritty-textured fruit available in many varieties
• n  Old World tree having sweet gritty-textured juicy fruit; widely cultivated in many varieties

• Australia also had a distressing experience with the prickly pear but in this case there was a happy ending.
• For a pear-shaped woman, it's always important to let your shoulders be your friend.
• Low-secreting, pear people lost about 4.

• pear tree
• Pyrus communis

News & Articles

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• Galt’s Kari Salinas pulls no punches in her fight against leukemia
  Kari Salinas, 19, wears a pear of boxing gloves signed by friends from her church on Friday, June 7, 2013. Salinas, who trains in mixed martial arts, was diagnosed with cancer on April 1.
  June 15, 2013 - Lodi News-Sentinel
• Garden Q&A: June 15, 2013
  Q. I planted a flowering pear tree in spring. Now it is getting brown spots on its leaves. Is this going to kill the tree? A. Flowering pears are susceptible to leaf spot disease. Yours has this foliar disease. Try not to wet its foliage.
  June 15, 2013 - The St. Augustine Record
• Fire blight attacks plants in rose family, such as pear trees
  Dear Neil: Every year, immediately after my pear tree stops blooming, the leaves at the tips of many of its branches turn coal black. What does that, and what can I do about it? That's a bacterial disease known as fire blight.
  June 13, 2013 - Lubbock Avalanche-Journal

Quotes

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• Simon Taufel in Sydney Morning Herald
  I was quite excited that I was getting a phone call from him and when I spoke to him but I could sense something was wrong and it all went pear-shaped from there,Mrs Taufel said. "He just said: 'Our driver's been shot, he's killed, and our...
• Stephen Donald in Sydney Morning Herald
  It's the first time things have gone a little bit pear-shaped for me so far as kicking and the crowd starting to lose the plot,Donald said. "It (the jug( got close but I had a pretty big tee boy today in (teammate) Sione Lauaki so I felt...