To follow up on the original question of the post, I did some digging over the web to find out more about the ASPA pear. I did not find an official definition, but came up with two leads: Theory #1 - it comes from the village/city of ASPA in russia (look up Aspa, Permskiy kray, Russie, 617530 in google map) Theroy #2- After looking at this russian site (http://vniispk.ru/pear.php)which contains 191 russian pear varieties, I translated all the names in google translate. The only thing that contained something that looks like ASPA after translation would be the SPACE pear (A-SPA...) for the pyrus Kosmicheskaya. From the descriptions of two different sites, we might have a potential candidate for that mysterious ASPA pear. Check these out: http://vniispk.ru/pear.php?key=74 http://www.pitomnik-zelenogorsk.biz/pitomnik/plodovye/Pyrus_communis_Kosmicheskaya.html the translated desription: Summer grade obtained in VNIIS them. Michurin from crossing varieties Daughter letterhead and Russian Malgorzhatka. Authors: G. A. Lobanov and ZI Ivanova. Zoned and distributed in amateur gardens Central Black Earth and Nonchernozem areas. Deserves cultivation in industrial plantations as winter hardy and productive variety. Tree with a rounded-spreading or shirokopiramidalnoy gustooblistvennoy crown. Skeletal branches off the trunk at an angle close to a right angle. Shoots straight, medium thickness, brownish, with a few small lenticels. Fruiting mainly on long-term, fruit wood. Leaves are green, medium-sized, ovoid, with raised edges, sometimes elevated and tip sheet. Surface of the leaf blade is smooth, shiny. Fruit below average size, weighing 90-110 g, one-dimensional, kubarevidnoy form. Peel tough, greenish-yellow, with dark green dots and small subcutaneous blurred blush on the illuminated side of the fruit. Peduncle thick or medium thickness, long, straight or slightly curved, directly or obliquely, with a thickening at the base. Funnel small, wide, ribbed. Saucer wide, medium depth, krupnorebristoe. Calyx closed. Heart average. Stony layer around heart cells. Seed chambers closed. Seeds of medium size, dark brown in color, well executed, oblong-pointed. The flesh is white, fine-grained, sweet, good taste. Fruits contain sugar - 8.9%, acid - 0.16%, the ratio of sugar to acid - 56, ascorbic acid - 5.9 mg/100 g, P-active substances - 46 mg/100 g. The fruit ripens in late August. Marketability of the fruit is high, especially with young fruit trees. Fruits transportable. Consumer maturity coincides with removable. Term consumption of no more than two weeks. Fruit intended for fresh consumption, but also suitable for processing: compotes, jams, dried fruit, etc. Start fruiting 5-6 years after planting in the garden. At a young age bears fruit annually, with age periodic. Grade high-yielding. In some years the crop reaches 150 kg per tree. At high yield fruit shrinking. In Michurinsk grade high hardiness, Orel in winter 1978/79, it was noted freezing of wood and bark bole burns no more than 2.5 points. Pros varieties: high yield and hardiness of the tree; fruit scab resistance. Disadvantages varieties: tall, large-sized tree, the periodicity of fruiting, reductions in fetal weight at high load of wood, short term fresh consumption, the presence in the fruit around the stony heart cells.

They will take about 15 years to come to fruiting age, but some can be very good. Plant several, so they can pollinate each other, then just wait. If you plant about twice as many as you have room for, you can cut the ones that have poor fruit later on when they crowd. Here, I put seeds in a small jar of soil in the fridge. After 3 months or so, tip them and their soil out on a plate and cover with a plastic bag. As they sprout, just pot them up...the first sprout is always the root, so it goes downwards when you plant it. have fun.

Compatible. Your 'selection' is just one of a bazillion of 'volunteer' callery seedlings that are rampantly invading the countryside. If you're bound and determined to propagate this one, you can probably find a million callery seedlings in the nearby vicinity - isn't this one growing along the highway right-of-way? - dig one up and graft its relative onto it. Scott is right. FB can strike callery. I'm seeing more and more of it around here. Not enough to take the majority of 'em out, unfortunately - though I do like having a few volunteers around to use for rootstocks.

I'm in the states so I don't think these are technically 'wild' here in the native sense but I ordered from sunbrightfarms