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<P>"A History of the Ornamental Callery Pear in the United States" -- (BioScience, Dec. 2007)</P>
<P>Abstract: <A href="http://www.bioone.org/">http://www.bioone.org/</A></P>
<P>~~~~~~~~~~~~<WBR>~~~~~~<BR>Here is an article that I think everyone would like to read as insights for<BR>Bradford pear and all those other hort. intro's that are mixing it up out<BR>there....explosion in slow motion. Please post.<BR><BR>Jim Miller (to ma-eppc)</P>
<P>~~~~~~~~~~~~<WBR>~~~~~~<BR>This paper may help clarify some of the confusion about Callery pear, its<BR>many cultivars, and its invasiveness. Then again, it will likely generate<BR>many more questions and possibly even additional confusion. But that is the<BR>way it goes with invasive species!<BR><BR>Jil Swearingen (to ma-eppc)</P>
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<P><FONT size=2>Excellent article, with ideas/lessons pertinent to many other cases. LEM</FONT></P></DIV>
<DIV>Larry Morse</DIV>
<DIV>Washington, D.C.</DIV>
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