Re: 'Slimus erectus'

**"* S* <m*@gmail.com>**

That is terrible! I'm all for the wolf.

Miranda

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 9:08 PM, Doreen Howard <gardendiva@charter.net>wrote:

> I returned home from a glorious week in Portland, enjoying gardens and
> grower displays, talking horticulture with experts and fellow hortiholics
> and experiencing the Oregon life to find my Asian pear tree was attacked by
> 'Slimus erectus.'
>
> The fruit-feeding vermin picked every one of the 44 Shenseiki Asian pears
> from the grafts on the Korean Giant Asian pear tree.  They were perfectly
> ripe, flawlessly organic due to my bagging them at thinning and succulent.
>  All the ripe Honeycrisp, Ashmead's Kernel, Pixie Crunch, Sweet Sixteen,
> Golden Delicious, Sops of Wine and Pitsmaston Pineapple apples on trees were
> ignored.  Obviously this creature has an economic agenda, as Asian pears
> sell for $2 each at the local grocery store.
>
> The reason for my rant is that I've waited patiently for four years to eat
> a Shenseiki Asian pear.  The main tree, Korean Giant, has bore fruit for
> three seasons, but the Shenseiki grafts took longer to mature and set fruit.
>  The purloined crop was my first.  Now I have to wait another year to
> finally taste a Shenseiki.
>
> I will harvest next year, even if I have to buy a wolf or bear to patrol
> the yard.
> Doreen Howard
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