This is not a story out of a horticultural book of fables. It is a story to ruffle your imagination. While the search goes on unabated for the elusive size-controlling precocious pear rootstock, an experiment at the Tatura Research Institute in Victoria, Australia, has shown that pear trees propagated on their own roots can match the productivity of trees on a rootstock. The cost of trees represents a large proportion (often more than 50 percent) of the total cost of establishing a Tatura Trellis planting. The experiment showed that pear trees can be propagated cheaply from softwood cuttings and made […]