Apple and pear trees aren't the only fruit trees that can become infected with scab. Stone fruit trees, such as those bearing ...

Gardeners with apple or pear trees are being warned to check them in January for a potentially deadly disease. Alan Buckingham, author of Allotment Month By Month, advises in the January section ...

Trees left unpruned are more susceptible to pests and diseases and produce less fruit. ... For instance, if your apple, pear or plum tree has coddling moth, he recommends Cyd-X, ...

Bradford pear trees are a variety of the Callery pear, which was introduced to the U.S. from Asia in the early 1900s in an attempt to fight fire blight, a disease that affected common pear trees.