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There's a fruiting pear tree just beyond the property line behind my house. Probably Bartlett, definitely not one of the ornamental flowering Callery pear trees that are planted in just about every yard around here. The tree must've been planted and forgotten by whoever owned the land before it was subdivided and developed.
Anyway, it's tall enough that the fruit is out of reach, and even if it was within reach, without regular thinning and pruning it produces thousands of tiny pears instead of hundreds of supermarket-sized ones. All it's good for is dropping overripe fruit on the ground in September and attracting every Yellowjacket in a five mile radius.
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