Abstract:
The pear collection at the Oregon Agricultural Experiment
Station consists of 272 named varieties, types, and species which are
largely the survivors of trials carried on over a 43 year period. The
collection was originally assembled and maintained by the Oregon
Station, but as of July 1, 1955, has been perpetuated under a cooperative
W-6 project involving states and territories of the Western
Region. The contributing project dealing directly with the collection
and for which the Oregon Station is responsible, is entitled "Maintenance
of a Repository for Germ Plasm of Pears and the Evaluation of
New Germ Plasm."
