Gary Moulton, at Washington State University in Mount Vernon, is impressed with Taylor’s Gold. While growers in the drier areas of Washington State have been struggling to grow the Taylor’s Gold pear to the point of giving up, producers in the wetter areas of the Pacific Northwest say they’re optimistic about the variety. In arid eastern Washington and in Medford, Oregon, growers report that the fruit has an unattractive blotchy russet, and is unlike the variety when it’s produced in New Zealand, where it originated as a sport of Comice. But in the coastal areas of the Pacific Northwest, growers […]