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Caring for a fruit tree doesn’t have to be difficult, but it should be tackled with some strategy. Do so, and you’ll enjoy the fruits of that labor.

Many families have a tradition of canning pears or making pear butter, a product similar to apple butter. Pears were the first fruit tree exported to the New World from Europe in 1630.

The Bradford pear, seen in bloom near Baylor University’s Ferrell Center, is a once-popular tree variety that has drawn increasing criticism over its weak structure and invasiveness.

The first colonial governor of Massachusetts planted a pear tree in the 1600s. It’s now believed to be the oldest cultivated fruit tree in the Americas — with an endearing history.

South Carolina put the Callery pear tree on its list of state plant pests in 2021 and passed a ban on the sale of Bradford pear trees and any trees grown using the Pyrus calleryana rootstock ...

The Post and Courier readers submitted photographs of fruit trees, and a winner and two honorable mentions were selected.

Q. I have an Asian pear that I planted several years ago but it has never fruited. This spring it had lots of blooms, but it still doesn’t look like it has set any fruit.

Callery pear trees are native to Asia and were brought to the United States about 100 years ago as a way to combat disease in orchards of French pears. Qualities like their upright, compact form ...