While Massachusetts has plenty of fantastic trees to look at this time of year, many of the state's trees are full of history ...

successfully produced a clone of Endicott's pear tree. There are few surviving remnants of those earliest days in American history, when European settlers arrived to the lands of the New World.

In fact, invasive European Starlings are one of the primary species that ... which led to the widespread use as both street and ornamental trees in urban plantings. The Bradford pear tree is a variety ...

Among European pears, we think of varieties such ... and lots of promise. Q: I have a pear tree that seems to have one limb, above the graft, that overachieves. Any insight as to what is going ...

This could be done unofficially because the tree's parentage is unknown, probably coming from European pears brought to this continent centuries ago. This is not a fruitless, ornamental pear ...

In addition to its spring flowers, Bradford pear tree foliage turns a beautiful dark ... pears tend to be non-native species like the European starling, deepening the harm caused by the trees.